7^.. 


THE 


^mth  Carolina  lockcD   Club. 


CHARLESTON.  S.  C  : 
RUSSELL    &    JONES, 

1857. 


COPYRIGHT    vSECURED. 


WALKER,  EVANS  &  CO. 

PRINTERS  &  STATIONKES, 
RROAD    ST..    CHARLKSTON. 


€>autttiis. 


PART  I. 

rASB 

PRELIMINARY    REMARKS 7 


PART   11. 

RACING— ITS   ORIGIN,   PROGRESS,    &c ; ,        2 

PART    III. 
RACING   MEMORANDA    FROM    1734    TO   THE  REVOLUTION 31 

PART    IV. 

RACING   MEMORANDA   AND   CALENDAR   OF    RACES    FROM    THE 

REVOLUTION    TO    1857 1« 

PART  V. 

WASHINGTON    COURSE  AND  ANNUAL    REUNIONS   OF   THE    S.    C. 

JOCKEY   CLUB I45 

PART  VI. 

A   GLANCE    AT    THE     DIFFERENT    RACE    COURSES    IN    SOUTH 

CAROLINA 155 

PART    VII. 
BRETHREN   OF   THE   SOUTH   CAROLINA  TURF I61 

PART  VIII. 

RULES  OF  THE  SOUTH  CAROLINA  JOCKEY  CLUB 189 

PART  IX. 

CONCLUSION 201 


[*  The  reader  of  this  work  will  please  observe,  that  the  folios  run  consecutively  to  the  IVth 
Part,  where,  for  the  convenience  of  the  printer,  they  recommence.] 


Prospero — 

Of  anything  the  image  tell  me,  that 
Hath  kept  with  thy  remembrance. 
Miranda — 

'Tis  far  off, 
And  rather  like  a  dream,  than  an  assurance 
That  my  remembrance  warrants. 

Tempest,  Act  I.,  So   1. 


f rHiminars   gnnaiiis. 


The  South  Carolina  Jockey  Club,  at  a  meeting  held  the  9th 
February,   1856  — 

Resolved,  That  a  Committee  be  appointed  to  collate  such  documents  as  may 
be  necessary  to  preserve  the  early  history  of  Races  in  the  State,  from  the  formation 
of  the  Club,  and  that  the  same  be  published  in  an  appropriate  and  enduring  form 
for  convenient  reference  in  the  future. 

The  undersigned  were  appointed  a  Committee  under  tlie  above 
Resokition.  Having  understood  that  one  of  the  officers  of  the  Ckib 
had  instiiuted,  many  years  since,  a  diligent  research  among  the  fast 
perishing  sources  and  documents  that  threw  any  liglit  upon  the  early 
history  of  our  Turf,  to  gather  ^ip,  if  jiossible,  the  fragments  that  remained, 
scattered  about  in  all  directions,  application  was  made  to  him  for  such 
papers  as  might  be  in  his  possession.  Many  were  placed  at  our  dis- 
posal, which,  upon  examination,  were  found  to  supply  the  verrj  informa- 
tion the  Club  was  desirous  to  obtain — hence  the  publication  of  the  pre- 
sent volume. 

On  perusal,  it  will  be  found  to  contain  a  mass  of  information,  which 
not  only  to  our  own  time,  but  especially  to  after  ages,  will  be  invaluable, 
increasing  in  importanc^e  more  and  more,  year  after  year,  as  the  present 
generation,  reducing  in  numV)ers  day  by  day,  will  soon,  in  the  course  of 
nature,  not  have  one  left  to  tell  of  the  events  of  the  earlier  days  of  the 
Turf  in  the  present  century,  to  say  nothing  of  the  wondrous  things  re- 
counted by  our  fathers,  as  having  been  done  by  those  who  lived  in  the 
old  time  before  them. 

Without  being  too  elaborate,  it  is  believed  that  this  little  work  fur- 
nishes as  complete  a  history  of  the  South  Carolina  Jockey  Club,  and  as 
correct  a  calendar  of  Races  run  under  its  rules,  dariny  a  period  of  one 


hundred  and  twenty-two  years,  as  can  be  compiled  under  existing  cir- 
cumstances. Should  anything  have  been  omitted,  however,  that  pro- 
perly belongs  to  the  subject,  and  ought,  consequently,  to  have  found  a 
place  in  the  following  pages,  the  reader,  it  is  expected,  will  bear  in 
mind  how  difficult  was  the  task  of  the  writer,  to  glean  information  from 
old  files  of  newspapers,  and  less  accessible  documents,  to  serve  as  a  link 
of  connection  between  the  last  and  the  present  century,  and  will,  with 
becoming  indulgence,  echo  the  generous  sentiment  of  Horace : 

"  Ubi  plura  nitent  in  carmine,  non  ego  paucis 
OfFendar  maculis,  quas  aut  incuria  fudit, 
Aut  humana  parum  cavit  natura." 

E.  P.  MILLIKEN,  Sec.  S.  C.J.C.,    ) 

J.  C.  COCHRAN,  Treasr.       "  [    Com. 

HENRY  C.  KING,  Solicitor    "  ) 


PART  n. 


$  SEsr))  Cmarning  faring— |ts  ®ripn  anb  |0pjJ. 


"  See  the  Course  throng'd  with  gazers — so  proud  and  elate, 
The  high-mettled  Racer  starts  first  for  the  plate. " 


It  has  been  well  asked  by  one,  who  has  a  very  lively  sense  of  the 
beautiful  in  nature  and  art,  "  Where  is  the  artist  who  could  ever  paint  a 
cataract  ? " 

The  glassy  surface  of  falling  water,  ere  it  breaks  o'er  the  abyss  in 
snowy  flakes;  the  glancing  rays  of  the  sun  upon  the  overhanging  trees; 
the  rocks,  the  slight  fringe  of  spray  around  them,  may  be  represented ; 
nay  even,  the  thick  smoke,  that  hangs  over  the  cascades,  as  they  fall 
into  the  ravines  below,  like  incense,  hovering,  as  it  were,  with  deferential 
awe,  over  some  altar  of  Nature,  before  it  ascends  to  the  throne  of  The 
Highest ! 

But  where  is  the  motion  ?  Where  are  the  white  and  frothing  waters 
that,  like  wild  horses,  affrighted  and  snorting,  and  at  full  speed,  dash 
along  the  sides  of  the  sloping  meadows ;  or,  leaping  from  declivity  to 
declivity,  precipice  to  precipice,  then  fall  with  deep,  sonorous,  and  splash- 
ing murmurs  from  the  black  and  shining  rocks? 

Where  is  the  rush  of  the  current,  after  the  waters  meet  and  commin- 
gle in  the  depths  below  ?  Where  the  busy  and  tumultuous  life,  the  ever 
changing  glistening,  the 

avapi5|xov  ysXacTfjia 
of  the  quick  waves  ? 

This  has  never  yet  been  done. 

We  cannot  catch  a  wave,  nor  Daguerreotype  its  grace  and  rocket-like 
velocity.  To  do  this  perfectly  is  beyond  the  power  of  man.  So,  like- 
wise, they  who  essay  to  convey,  by  description,  the  various  features : 
the  scenes,  and  moments  of  eager  and  tumultuous  joy  ;  the  moving  fig- 
ures ;  the  phantasmagoria  of  life,  such  as  are  continually  presented  and 
occurring  on  a  Race  Ground,  will,  also,  fail  in  conveying  aught  but  a 
cold,  inanimate  picture  to  the  mind  of  the  reader  !  It  is  a  subject  that 
cannot  well  be  pictured  by  words — though  many  attempt  it,  none  can 
throw  in,  truthfully,  all  its  shifting  shapes  and  hues,  for  they  are  as  va- 
ried and  dazzling  as  are  the  changes  in  a  kaleidoscope. 

A  Race  Course  is,  in  many  particulars,  much  the  same  same  sort  of 
thing  all  over  the  world — the  same  striking  features  present  themselves — 
a  long  line  of  vehicles  of  all  sorts  and  conditions, 

"  Buggy,  gig  or  dog-cart,  curricle  or  tandem," 


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setting  like  a  stream  in  one  direction,  with  here  and  there  a  counteract- 
ing eddy,  interrupting  its  progress  for  awhile,  but  soon  recovering  itself, 
moving  on  steadily  and  unitedly  as  before.  The  road  becomes  more 
thronged,  and  thicker  crowds,  stirred  by  one  interest,  animated  by  one 
absorbing  passion,  press  more  eagerly  forward  as  they  approach  the  gates. 
Race  horses,  shrouded  in  all  the  covering  of  hood  and  body-clothes, 
are  led  on  the  ground  by  their  faithful  grooms,  and  followed  by  their 
riders.  Jockey  stands,  filled  to  overflowing  with  spectators,  in  their  holi- 
day finery,  gazing  on  the  passing  scene,  with  eager,  happy,  and  expect- 
ant faces ;  whilst  on  both  sides  of  the  roped  arena,  in  the  vicinity  of  the 
starting  post,  are  huddled  together  carriages,  in  tiers,  three  or  four  deep, 
with  the  horses  taken  off,  in  the  best  positions  to  see  the  race,  packed  as 
closely  together,  as  Sam  Slick  would  say,  an  pins  in  a  paper.  The 
horses,  which  have  been  entered  for  the  coming  event,  paraded  in  the  en- 
closure by  the  starting  post,  display,  in  their  elastic  step,  the  attributes  of 
racers.  Then  follows  the  usual  preparations :  weighing  the  riders;  the 
unbuckling  of  straps  and  surcingles;  blankets  scientifically,  with  a  sort 
of  sleight  of  hand,  turned  off  over  the  loins  and  croup  of  the  animals,  so 
as  not  to  disarrange  a  hair  of  their  glossy  coat,  exhibiting  them  in  the 
pride  of  the  highest  condition  ;  rubbing  down  and  saddling  the  horses ; 
the  expression  of  opinion  in  favor  of  one  horse,  and  of  doubts  on  the 
others ;  the  mounting  of  the  jockies ;  the  anxiety  on  the  part  of  the 
grooms  to  get  a  favorable  start ;  the  hum  of  anxiety  as  the  word  is  given 
"  to  go" — and  they  are  off;  the  diversified  colors  of  the  riders — purple, 
pink,  green,  scarlet — resembling  mosaic  work,  as  they  unfold  their  hues, 
and  blazon,  rainbow-like,  in  the  sun ;  the  excitement  of  the  populace  as 
the  coursers  change  places  in  the  race,  the  interest  increasing  with  every 
fresh  struggle,  till  towards  the  close  of  the  contest,  the  straining  steeds 
enter  the  last  quarter  stretch,  urged  to  their  utmost  speed  and  exertion, 
whips  and  spurs  doing  their  work,  and  they  near  the  distance  post ;  the 
ground  resounds  beneath  their  rapid  strides, 

"  Quadrupedante  putrem  sonitu  quatit  ungula  campum  ;  " 

the  noise  of  their  hoofs  increases ;  the  breathless  moment  of  suspense  is 
at  hand ;  they  are  all  together ;  it  is  any  one's  race ;  the  earth  trembles  ; 
they  come  ;  they  fly  by  ;  they  pass  the  post ;  the  welkin  rings  with  the 
delighted  shouts  of  thousands,  and  all  is  over ! 

Instantly,  on  all  sides,  "  around  and  about,"  there  is  a  sea  of  human 
beings  moving  to  and  fro  :  some  on  horseback,  or  in  vehicles,  hurrying 
from  point  to  point ;  some  on  foot,  vociferous,  swaying  hither  and  thither ; 
all  animation  and  anxiety  for  a  while  before  the  race,  then  breathless, 


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motionless,  as  long  as  the  issue  is  in  doubt ;  but  no  sooner  is  the  contest 
over  than  the  close  lines  of  people  on  either  side  of  the  roped  arena, 
suddenly  breaking  up  and  pouring  into  it,  impart  a  new  liveliness  to  the 
scene,  which  is  again  all  busy  movement.  Some  rush  eagerly  in,  to 
catch  a  glimpse  of  the  winning  horse,  as  he  returns  to  the  scale  house  ; 
others,  to  rejoin  friends  they  had  separated  from,  as  the  horses  started,  to 
procure  better  situations  to  see  the  race ;  others,  with  brightened  eyes, 
again  to  flirt  -with  the  "  dark  eyed  one,"  to  whom  a  pair  of  gloves  had 
been  lost. 

But,  whilst  every  Race  Ground  presents  the  same  cheerful  scene,  and 
many  of  the  same  varied  objects,  yet  our  Course,  perhaps,  for  divers  rea- 
sons, has  attractions  peculiarly  its  own.  We  arrive  at  this  conclusion, 
from  the  fact,  that  an  agreeable  impression  is  generally  made  upon  those 
who  attend  our  races  for  the  first  time  ;  moreover,  that  a  favorable  opin- 
ion is  generally  carried  away  by  those  who  have  partaken  of  the  hospi- 
tality of  our  Club. 

On  the  morning  of  a  race  our  city  pours  forth  the  sport  loving  portion 
of  its  inhabitants.  As  the  hour  for  starting  the  horses  approaches,  so 
may  be  seen  an  anxious  crowd  wending  its  way  along  the  different  ave- 
nues that  lead  to  the  Course.  First  is  seen,  in  the  ladies'  stand,  a  gal-axy 
of  beauty — Matrons  and  Demoiselles — mothers,  in  the  full  bloom  and 
maturity  of  their  loveliness ;  and  daughters,  exceedingly  beautiful,  and 
very  much  like  their  mothers  ;  the  animation  of  the  scene  greatly  aug- 
mented by  those  "  who  come  to  be  seen,  as  well  as  to  see  ;  "  vieing  with 
each  other  in  the  little  coquetries  every  accomplished  belle  knows  well 
how  to  avail  herself  of,  to  secure  the  devotion  of  some  popular  beau — 
among  other  things,  betting  with  hira  upon  some  pending  event. 

By-the-bye,  alluding  to  betting,  we  will  just  mention  an  interesting  in- 
cident of  other  days : 

A  young  lady  on  the  Charleston  Race  Ground  once  offered  to  bet  with 
a  young  gentleman,  not  upon  the  result  of  the  race,  but  that  he  would 
not  be  married  within  the  year.  He  thought  he  never  heard  the  dear 
thing  speak  in  such  sweet  tones  before,  and  as  it  happened  to  be  Leap 
Year,  he  was  bound  to  construe  the  circumstance  into  an  encourage- 
ment of  his  well-known  preference.  He  very  properly  mustered  courage 
enough  to  reply;  that  if  he  was  not  married  within  the  specified  time,  it 
would  certainly  be  her  fault  ! 

Now,  when  this  paragraph  meets  the  eyes  of  our  fair  young  friends, 
(and  we  flatter  ourselves  we  will  have  some  readers  among  them,)  they 
are  requested  to  note  it  well,  and  take  care,  whenever  it  happens  to  be 
Leap  Year.,  how  they  venture  to  bet  at  the  Races — we  beg  them  to  pon- 


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Aev  well  upon  the  little  anecdote  we  have  told,  and  learn  from  it,  the 
true  solution  of  the  mystery,  how  it  comes  to  pass,  that  a  lady  some-- 
times  becomes  (even  b}^  the  slight  circumstance  o^  a  bet)  "  the  better 
half  of  another  /" — an  expression  they  have,  doubtless,  very  frequently 
heard,  but  we  venture  to  say,  never  before  had  satisfactorily  explained  to 
them. 

The  following  notice  of  the  origin  of  the  custom  appertaining  to  the 
"ladies  privilege"  in  Leap  Year,  will  be  found  in  an  old  volume,  dated 
1601,  and  entitled  '"An  act  to  amend  the  laws  of  Courtship  and  Matri- 
tnonie :" 

"  Albeit  it  is  now  become  part  of  the  common  law  in  regard  to  the 
social  relations  of  life,  that  as  often  as  every  Bissextile  year  doth  return, 
the  ladies  have  the  sole  privilege  of  making  love  unto  the  men  ;  and  no 
man  will  be  entitled  to  the  benefit  of  clergy,  who  doth  refuse  to  accept 
the  offer  of  a  lady,  or  who  doth,  in  any  wise,  treat  her  proposal  with 
neglect  or  contumely." 

The  traditional  privilege  of  the  fair  sex,  to  take  the  initiative  in  mat- 
ters of  courtship  during  Leap  Year,  is  familiar  to  every  body,  and  has 
often  been  made  the  subject  of  literary  pleasantries.  We  may  infer  from 
one  instance,  as  above,  how  available  it  was  to  secure  the  happiness  of 
one  couple,  and  with  what  becoming  modesty  on  the  part  of  her  most 
interested,  "  the  consummation  so  devoutly  to  be  wished"  was  brought 
about.  We  cannot  do  otherwise,  therefore,  possessing,  as  we  do,  a  most 
philanthropic  spirit,  than  wish,  with  all  our  heart,  the  privilege  may  be 
so  generously  and  generally  exercise<l  during  every  future  Leap  Year, 
that  all  our  young  Jockies  may  have  the  blessed  luck  in  store  foi-  them, 
to  experience — 

How  vast  must  their  advantajje  be — 

How  great  their  pleasure  prove — 
Who,  when  the  question's  popt,  consent, 

In  offices  of  Love  ! 

In  addition  to  what  we  have  already  said,  in  refei'ence  to  the  attrac- 
tions of  oar  annual  meetings,  we  will  further  observe,  that  although 
there  is  rot  in  Charleston  the  motley  variety  and  assemblage  to  be  seen 
in  "  merrie  old  England,"  on  a  great  field  day — elegant  equipages  of  all 
sorts  and  styles,  "  with  all  the  forms,  modes  and  shows"  of  wealth  and 
rank — flags  flying  gaily  from  tent-tops — the  rich  and  the  poor — beg- 
gars, "  houseless  wretches,  that  bide  the  pelting  of  the  )>itiless  storm," 
from  year  to  year — pickpockets,  gypseys  and  gypsey  children,  all  com- 
mingled— making  up  a  heterogeneous  mass  of  mirth  and  excitement, 
yet— 

"  A  looker  on  here  in  Vienna," 


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from  the  old  work],  can  any  day  witness  on  our  Course  a  scene,  that  can- 
not fail,  from  its  noveltz/^  to  strike  the  beholder  for  the  first  time,  with 
peculiar  force  and  interest — we  refer  to  the  Backfiammon  Board  ap- 
pearance, a  part  of  our  Course  puts  on,  during  the  running  of  the  heats, 
black  and  while  groups, dotting  the  Course  here  and  there,  and  changing 
coloi-  with  surprising  regularity — chameleon-like — the  black  faces  turn- 
ing wliite^  and  the  ivhite  faces  looking  very  black,  from  time  to  time,  as 
their  respective  favorites  fail  to  equal  their  anticipations. 

As  it  may  reasonably  be  expected  in  a  publication  of  this  kind,  that 
something  would  be  said  of  the  orj^^m  and  history  o{  racing,  ■^Whoxxt 
going  as  fully  into  the  subject,  as  we  might  do,  with  the  materials  at  our 
command,  we  will  confine  ourself  to  a  brief  review,  from  tlie  best  au- 
thorities extant. 

Horse  racing  is  so  ancient  an  amusement,  it  is  puzzling  to  determine 
to  what  point  of  time  it  is  fair  to  go  back,  to  fix  a  Starting  Post.  Let  us 
be  content  to  go  back  about  3300  years,  to  the  Olympic  games  of  an- 
cient Greece.  Every  schoolboy  has  read  of  them,  consequently  knows 
that  horse  racing  was  a  tixvorite  sport  in  those  days  ;  tlie  running  taking 
place  periodically,  on  a  Course  regularly  laid  out  for  the  purpose,  vary- 
ing in  length,  according  to  the  age  and  supposed  powers  of  the  competi- 
tors. 

The  poets  Sophocles  and  Pindar  have  both  written  on  the  subject — 

■*  the  one  has  a  long  description  of  the  Olympic  Turf,  with  its  exercises, 

in   his  play  of  The  Electro.  ;   whilst  the  other  has  an   ode,  in  which 

honorable  mention  is  made  of  a  distinguished  winner  of  the  Olympic 

crown  ! 

The  Equiria  at  Rome,  so  called  from  the  races  that  were  run  in  the 
Campus  Martius,  in  existence  2450  years  ago,  were  anciently  run  'in  the 
open  country,  and  afterwards  in  enclosures,  railed  in  with  wood,  to  pre- 
vent the  spectators  from  crowding  in  too  much.  To  attain  the  same 
end,  modern  race  courses  are  either  railed  in  or  roped — many  of  them, 
like  the  Charleston  Race  Course,  all  the  way  round,  but  none  of  them 
are  without  enclosures  at  the  coming-in  post. 

Constantine  did  not  think  it  beneath  his  dignity  to  complete  the  fa- 
mous Course,  Altmeidan,  at  Constantinople,  commenced  by  his  prede- 
cessor, Alexander  Severus. 

Racing  in  Italy  is  still  a  common  pastime  at  the  present  day.  At  An- 
cona,  by-the-bye,  they  have  a  singular,  but  very  admirable  method  of 
determining  the  winner.  Across  the  Course,  at  the  coming-in  post,  a 
thread   is  stretched,  saturated  in  a  red  mixture,  which  the  first  horse 


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breaking,  leaves  a  mark  upon  his  breast,  which  mark,  whenever  it  is  a 
near  thing,  is  deemed  decisive  of  victory. 

It  may  be  remarked  here,  that  in  one  particular,  horse  racing  in  Italy 
differs  from  all  other  parts  of  the  world.  It  is  the  only  part  of  the  civi- 
lized world,  in  which  horses  are  started  without  riders,  having  only  a 
surcingle  round  the  back,  with  spurs  suspended,  the  action  of  the  animals 
serving  "  to  prick  the  sides  of  their  intent." 

Not  to  be  too  classical,  however,  let  us  now  see  what  are  the  earliest  indi- 
cations of  racing  in  our  mother  country.  We  gather  from  a  little  work, 
on  the  "  Sports  and  Pastimes  of  England,"  that  something  like  racing 
was  set  on  foot  there  in  the  ninth  century,  during  the  reign  of  Athel- 
stane ;  and  that  several  race  horses  were  sent  as  a  present  by  Hugh  Ca- 
pet to  i.\thelstane,  when  the  latter  was  in  treaty  tor  the  hand  of  Hugh 
Capet's  sister  in  marriage.  The  habit  of  racing,  to  test  the  value  of 
horses  by  their  gaits  and  speed,  became  more  general  soon  after  this 
period. 

In  the  reign  of  the  Second  Henry,  Smithfield  was  the  great  horse 
mart,  where  the  knowing  ones  were  wont  to  assemble,  either  to  buy,  or 
to  sell — to  prove  the  excellency  of  their  horses,  it  is  recorded  that  they 
were  usually  matched  against  each  other.  King  John  owned  running 
horses,  for  their  cost  and  keep  are  fi-equently  alluded  to  in  the  accounts 
of  his  expenses.  Three  of  the  Edwards — the  Second,  the  Third  and  the 
Fourth — as,  al  so,  the  Eighth  Henry,  were  breeders  of  horses ;  the  last 
named  monarch  had  some  stock,  which  he  imported  from  the  East.  Ra- 
cing, then,  appears,  for  the  first  time,  to  be  more  scientifically  pursued 
than  previously.  In  the  reign  of  Elizabeth,  and  her  successor,  James, 
we  detect  in  the  sport  a  new  and  improved  order  of  things.  Private 
matches  among  the  gentry  became  more  frequent,  and  several  new  pub- 
lic race  courses  were  established — more  attention  was  paid  to  training, 
the  horses  being  brought  to  the  post  in  better  condition. 

Both  Prince  Henry  and  the  First  Charles  were  well  inclined  to  all  ru- 
ral sports  ;  but  the  one  died  early,  and  the  other  was  too  much  beset  by 
the  harassing  anxieties  of  his  reign,  to  afford  him  leisure  to  i'ndulge 
much  in  the  pleasures  of  the  Turf.  In  his  time,  however,  it  is  said  that 
the  first  valuable  public  prize  ever  offered,  was  i-un  for  in  the  town  of 
Stamford — it  was  a  silver  gilt  cup  and  cover.  Soon  after  this,  the  Duke 
of  Buckingham's  Helmsley  Turk,  and  Lord  Fairfax's  Morocco  Barb,  were 
brought  to  England,  and  greatly  improved  the  native  breed.  Helmsley 
Turk  got  Bustler,  and  Bustler  got  Blunderbuss  ;  Morocco  Barb  got  the 
dam  of  the  celebrated  Spanker. 


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In  1640,  races  were  held  at  New  Market,  and  in  Hyde  Park,  near  Lon- 
don. 

Cromwell  did  not  deem  it  inconsistent  with  bis  religious  profession 
and  rigid  observances,  nor  incompatible  with  the  highest  official  digni- 
ties, to  own  and  to  encourage  a  good  breed  of  horses — even  he,  when 
Lord  Protector  of  England,  had  his  thorough -breds.  His  stud  groom, 
a  man  by  the  name  of  Place,  was  It  prominent  character  in  those  days. 
The  oldest  of  our  pedigrees  end  with  that  of  White  Turk,  one  of  Crom- 
well's stallions  ;  and  he  owned  a  famous  mare,  called  '•  The  Coffin  mare^'' 
from  her  being  concealed  in  a  vault,  during  the  sf^arch  for  his  effects  at 
the  time  of  the  Restoration. 

White  Turk  got  the  old  Thornton  mare,  (dam  of  the  Fen  mare ;)  also, 
he  got  Commoner,  Wormwood,  &c.  He,  also,  got  the  great  grandam 
of  Old  Scar,  Wyndham,  Crutches,  Old  Cartouch  and  several  others. 

It  is  quite  evident  that  racing  was  in  great  favor  in  the  reign  of  the 
Second  Charles,  Tlie  king  frequently  attended  the  races  at  New  Mar- 
ket, and  other  popular  Courses,  to  see  his  own  horses  run,  which  were 
always  entered  in  liis  own  name  ;  and  we  find  the  prizes  contended  for 
becoming  more  valuable;  and  for  the  first  time,  various  pieces  of  silver 
plate,  cups,  &;c.,  offered,  to  be  run  for. 

For  many  seasons,  a  golden  hell  had  been  the  usual  prize,  but  Charles 
the  Second  substituted  silver  boivls  or  cups,  as  trophies  of  victory  ! 

Besides  being  on  the  Turf  himself,  King  Charles  did 

"  The  State  some  service,  and  they  knew  it," 

by  breeding  race  hordes,  having  imported  marcs  fi'om  Barbary,  and  other 
parts. 

He  sent  abroad  his  Master  of  the  Horse,  (who  was  said  by  some  to  be 
Sir  Christopher  Wyville,  and  by  others  to  be  Sir  John  Fenwick,)  to  make 
a  proper  selection  of  mares,  which,  on  their  arrival  in  England,  as,  also, 
several  of  their  oflspring,  purely  of  foreign  blood,  were  called  "  Royal 
mares''' — noted  as  such  in  the  Stud  Book  to  this  day.  One  of  these 
mares  was  the  dam  of  Dodsworth,  bred  by  King  Charles,  and  said  to  be 
the  earliest  race  horse  we  have  on  record,  whose  pedigree  can  be  prop- 
erly authenticated. 

Dodsworth,  though  foaled  in  England,  was  a  natural  Barb — he  was 
got  before  his  dam  left  Barbary.  This  mare  was  sold  by  the  Stud  Mas- 
ter at  the  death  of  King  Charles,  being  then  20  years  old,  for  40  guineas, 
and  was  then  in  foal  of  Vixen,  by  the  Holderness  Turk.  Dodsworth  cov 
ered  several  well-bred  mares,  and  produced  some  good  stock. 

Holderness  Turk,  called  after  the  Earl  of  Holderness,  got  the  J^tump 


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mare,  (grandam  of  Captain,)  bred  by  the  Duke  of  Leeds,  out  of  a 
iaughter  of  Lister's  Snake.  Vixen,  mentioned  above,  was  the  dam  of 
the  old  Child  mare,  grandam  of  the  young  Child  mare,  and  great 
grandam  of  Whimsey. 

Tlie  reign  of  "  the  merrie  monarch"  was  more  distinguished  than  any 
of  his  predecessors,  for  the  extent  to  which  the  diversions  of  the  Turf, 
uncier  many  new  rules  and  regulations,  were  carried,  and  the  exertions 
made  to  establish  and  perpetuate  them,  as  a  national  amusement. 

To  the  Duke  of  Newcastle  belongs  the  credit  of  carrying  out  the  then 
improved  system  of  horse  racing. 

The  Second  James,  though  he  lacked  some  other  1700c?  qualities,  is  ad- 
mitted to  iiave  been  a  good  horseman.  William  and  Mary,  and  the 
Queen  Anne,  were  patrons  of  the  Turf — not  only  continuing  the  bounty 
of  their  predecessors,  but  adding  several  new  plates  for  public  competi- 
tion. Prince  George  of  Denmark,  the  consort  of  Queen  Anne,  kept  a 
fine  stud.  The  Curwen  Bay  Barb,  and  tlie  celebrated  Darley  Arabian, 
date  from  the  reign  of  Anne. 

The  First  and  Second  George  did  not  seem  to  care  much  about  racing, 
as  a  pastime  to  themselves  ;  tliey  were  wise  enough,  however,  not  to  be 
inditferent  to  the  preservation  of  a  good  breed  of  running  horses  in  their 
kingdom ;  therefore,  encouraged  the  sport — the  former,  by  instituting 
the  Kingh  Plates,  as  they  have  ever  since  been  termed ;  and  the  other, 
by  making  some  regulations,  he  thought  advisable  for  the  su]~)pressiou  of 
Scrub  Races — races  for  lialf-bred  horses,  which  he  thought  were  becom- 
ing too  common,  and,  if  not  put  a  stop  to  or  discouraged,  might  ulti- 
mately defeat  the  legitimate  ends  of  racing.  He  very  properly  wished 
to  see  the  Turf  confined  to  pure  blood. 

In  his  reign,  the  Godolphin  Arabian,  or  as  it  ought,  in  the  judgment 
of  many,  to  be  written,  the  Godolphin  Barb,  appeared,  who,  with  the 
Byerley  Turk,  and  the  Darley  Arabian,  stand  prominently  out  from  all 
other  Turks,  Arabians  and  Barbs,  as  the  three  illustrious  founders  oi 
English  blood  stock. 

The  Byerley  Turk  was  so  called  from  having  been  Captain  Byerley's 
charger  in  Ireland,  in  King  William's  wars,  1689,  <fec.  It  was  not,  how- 
ever, until  seventy  years  after  he  carried  his  owner  at  the  battle  of  Boyne, 
that  his  memory  was  redeemed  from  oblivion,  to  be  held  in  everlasting 
remembrance,  us  progenitor  of  the  famous  King  Herod  ! 

Byerley  Turk  got  Jigg ;  Jigg  got  Partner,  a  capital  horse,  bred  in 
1718.     Partner  was  the  sire  of  Tartar  in  1743.     Tartar  was  not  only 
an  excellent  racer,  but  became  highly  esteemed  as  a  stallion,  for  he  (Tar- 
tar) got  King  Herod,  foaled  in  1758. 
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The  blood  of  the  famous  Herod,  on  the  sire  side,  is  thus  traced  up 
to  the  great  fountain-head — namely,  Herod  by  Tartar,  Tartar  by  Part- 
ner, Partner  by  Jigg,  and  Jigg  by  the  Byerley  Turk. 

The  Darley  Arabian  was  raised  at  Palmyra,  and  purchased  from  the 
Arabs  by  a  Mr,  Darley,  a  merchant  resident  at  Aleppo,  who  shipped  him 
to  England  in  1703.  He  got  Flying  Childers,  the  swiftest  known  horse 
in  England  up  to  that  time. 

From  Flying  Childers,  descended  King  Herod,  through  Cypron,  (the 
dam  of  Herod,)  bred  in  1750,  got  by  Blaze.  Blaze,  bred  in  1733,  was 
by  Flying  Childers,  and  Flying  Childers,  bred  in  1715,  was  by  Barley's 
Arabian  ;  thus  it  is  seen  that  the  famous  Herod  had  the  Darley  Ara- 
bian blood  on  the  maternal  side,  as  we  have  shown  already  a  few  lines 
above,  he  had  the  blood  of  the  Byerley  Turk  on  the  paternal  side. 

From  Herod,  descended  Highflyer,  who  was  invincible  whilst  on  the 
Turf — never  having  been  beaten,  and  never  having  paid  forfeit — unri- 
valled, likewise,  as  a  stud  horse,  except,  perhaps,  by  Eclipse  and  Herod, 
in  the  number  of  winners  he  produced. 

He  got  more  colts  than  fillies.  He  got  only  two  chesnuts,  and  near 
five  hundred  colts  and  fillies,  which  proved  winners  on  the  Turf,  He 
was  called  Highflyer,  from  his  being  foaled  in  a  paddock,  in  which  were 
a  number  of  Highflyer  walnut  trees.  He  was  named  by  Lord  Boling- 
broke,  at  a  large  dinner  party  at  Sir  Charles  Bunbury's — the  celebrated 
Charles  Fox  was  present. 

Highflyer  got  Sir  Peter  Teazle — a  horse  uniting  the  Arabian  action^ 
with  an  immense  stride,  giving  him  wonderful  speed,  and  an  ability  to 
get  over  the  ground,  without  any  apparent  effort  or  tire  in  him. 

Delpini  was  another  of  the  get  of  Highflyer,  renowned  whilst  on  the 
Turf,  and  proving  very  valuable  in  the  stud,  also,  being  the  sire  of  many 
winners  of  the  best  stakes, 

Rockingham  was  another  of  Highflyer's  sons — thought  by  many  to 
be  the  best  racer  of  his  get,  winning  more  races  and  money  than  any 
horse  of  his  day.  As  a  stallion,  however,  he  did  not  prove  as  famous 
as  his  sire,  or  by  any  means  equal  to  his  near  relative,  St,  Peter. 

Among  all  the  sons  of  Herod,  it  seems  to  have  belonged  peculiarly 
to  Highflyer,  to  perpetuate  the  inestimable  qualities  of  his  illustrious 
sire ;  and  to  Sir  Peter,  his  son,  to  continue  those  qualities  down  to  sub- 
sequent generations ;  for  many  of  the  sons  and  daughters  of  Sir  Peter, 
inherited  all  the  rare  perfections,  the  speed  and  "  staying  qualities,"  that 
distinguished  this  noble  race  of  blood. 

The  establishment  of  the  St.  Leger,  Derby  and  Oaks,  in  1776,  1780, 
was  coeval  with  the  brilliant  career  of  Highflyer. 


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About  twenty  years  after  the  Darley  Arabian,  the  Oodolphin  Arabian 
was  purcliased  for  a  small  sum  in  France,  and  sent  over  to  England. 
Nothing  is  known  with  certainty  of  his 

"  Birth,  parentage  and  education," 

although  there  is  no  doubt  that  ho  was  of  the  Barbavy  breed — his  crest 
■was  of  uncommon  height,  peculiar  to  the  Barb.  He  was  not  much  ap- 
preciated, however,  until  a  fortunate  circumstance  made  him  the  sire  of 
Lath,  (out  of  Roxana.)  who  grew  up  to  be  a  horse  of  great  size  and  beau- 
ty, and  after  trial,  jiroving  himself  to  be  the  best  horse  in  PJngland 
since  Flying  Childers  day.  "  The  Godolphin^''  having  thus  established 
his  character,  he  immediately  became  a  very  popular  stallion,  supplied 
with  the  best  mares  in  the  country.  His  progeny  was  very  numerous 
and  distinguished — the  most  noted  were  Cade,  full  brother  to  Lath  ;  Regu- 
lus,  (thought  by  many  to  have  been,  "  take  him  for  all  in  all,"  the  best 
son  of  the  Godolphin  ;)  Babraham,  Bajazet,  Blank,  &e. 

The  Godolphin  Arabian  when  brought  to  England  was  about  four 
years  old.  He  became  the  property  of  Lord  Godolphin,  (lience  his 
name,)  who  retained  him  until  his  death,  which  happened  in  1753, 
when  he  vvas  28.  at  his  owner's  seat  in  Cambridgeshire. 

Li  speaking,  a  little  above,  of  the  Darley  Arabian,  I  observed  that  he 
got  FlyintT  Childers,  reputed  to  be  the  fastest  horse  in  England,  that  had 
ever  started  in  a  race  up  to  that  time,  He  got,  also.  Bulk  Hock,  foaled 
in  1718  ;  and  I  mention  this,  because  Bulle  Rock  was  one  of  the  early 
importations  into  this  country.    He  was  imported  into  Virginia  in  1730. 

A  great  grandson  of  the  Darley  Arabian  got  Eclipse — the  Eclipse, 
known  now  as  Eivjlish  Eclipse — without  a  rival  in  his  two  seasons, 
1769-70. 

Georije  the  Third,  though  neither  a  horseman  nor  a  sportsman,  recog- 
nized and  encouraged  racing,  as  a  national  pastime.  Early  in  his  long 
and  eventful  reign,  the  celebrated  Eclipse  Avas  foaled.  From  this  period, 
it  is  customary  to  dote  English  Racing.  The  Prince  Regent,  afteiwaids 
George  the  Fourth,  delighted  in  horses,  and  was  a  great  patron  of  the 
Race  Course  for  manv  years.  Many  splendid  animals  were,  year  after 
year,  bred  and  brought  before  the  public;;  bi-eeding  pursueil  upon  a  co?-- 
rect  svstem  of  ])hiloso])hy,  or  rather,  as,  perhaps,  it  ought  to  be  said, 
upon  the  true  principles  of  physiology.  Having  thus  procured  the  best 
of  blood  by  judicious  crosses,  there  was  an  increased  attention  given,  by 
skill  in  training,  to  put  the  produce  in  the  best  condition,  to  give  it  its 
highest  attainable  degree  of  physical  power.  The  necessity  of  sagacious 
orders  and  skilful  riding  was  not  overlooked     These,  with  the  previous 


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stable  management,  and  preparation  for  the  Course,  were  carried  to  such 
a  decree  of  perfection,  that  training  took  rank  as  a  science  ;  and  there 
is  no  doubt  if.  truly  became  as  much  of  a  science,  as  many  of  the  ad- 
mitted sciences — as  much  so  certainly  as  experimental  philosophy,  for  it 
is  experimental  philosophy  ;  as  much  so  as,  pJiT/ftic^  for  it  is  a  part  of  the 
phyiiical  art : — like  these,  it  has,  to  a  certain  extent,  l>cen  leduced  to  rule, 
a  certain  routine  followed,  by  which  it  may  be  learned.  The  appellation 
scientific^  then,  as  ])ioperly  helongs  to  the  art  of  training  now,  as  to  much 
that  at  present  goes  by  the  name  of  science  ! 

At  no  period  of  the  world,  nor  in  any  country,  was  racing  ever  car- 
ried to  such  an  extent,  or  conducted  with  sucdi  an  expenditure  of  care, 
time  and  money,  and  rigid  arlherence  to,  and  respect  for,  the  great  max- 
im, tiiat  blood  rvill  tell,  as  at  that  which  marked  the  more  jtopular  days 
of  the  Prince  Regent's  career  on  the  Turf — at  one  time,  his  distinction, 
as  a  patron  of  the  Turf,  was  pre-eminent — he  won  all  hearts,  by  the  en- 
couragement he  bestowed  upon  a  sport,  so  very  popular  with  his  loving 
people,  as  to  become  a  ruling  passion  with  them;  the  principal  nobility 
and  gentry,  men  of  the  highest  rank,  the  utmost  distinction,  and  the 
most  princely  wealth,  followed  the  Prince's  example,  and  using  their 
highly  influential  assistance  in  the  promotion  of  the  same  objei't,  ra~ 
cinr/  became  general  from  one  end  of  the  kincidom  to  the  other ;  there 
being  no  less  than  120  dift'erent  places  for  races — at  many  of  which, 
there  were  two  or  more  meetings  held  in  the  year- — at  New  Market, 
never  less  than  seven  annual  meetings. 

But  more  than  this — as  if  to  show  that  racing  wfHAthe  prevailinr/  taste 
of  the  age — it  seemed  only  necessary  for  the  Anglo-Saxon  race  to  intro- 
duce the  sports  of  their  island  ancestors  to  any  quarter  of  the  globe,  to 
liave  them,  then  aud  there,  at  once  tirmly  established,  encouraged  and 
patronized,  as  well  as  circumstances  would  permit. 

The  French,  of  late  years,  have  become  much  attached  to  the  favorite 
amusement  of  the  English,  and  have  afforded  great  encouragement  to 
the  Turf.  In  France,  there  are  several  places  where  meetings  are  held — 
Chantilly,  and  the  Champ  de  Mars  ;  Versailles,  on  the  plains  of  Satory  ; 
Angers,  Caen,  Nantes,  Tours  and  Boulogne.  Ciiantiily  and  the  Champs 
de  Mars  are  the  principal  meetings;  races  take  place  twice  a  year 
at  the  former.  Racing  in  France  first  attained  to  popularity  through  the 
influence  of  the  Duke  of  Orleans,  and  Lord  Henry  Seymour.  They  were 
the  two  leading  men  on  the  French  Turf  for  many  years — the  former,  to 
the  deep  regret  of  a  whole  people,  is  no  more  ;  and  the  latter  has  re- 
tired, giving  way  to  other  aspirants.   Monsieur  Lupin,  M.  Fould,  M.  Saba- 


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tier,  M.  Fasquel  and  Baron  de  Rothscliild,  were  among  the  most  spirited 
and  fortunate  of  the  owners  of  horses  in  France  for  many  seasons. 

There  is  an  excellent  Jockey  Club  in  Paris — it  reckons  among  its 
members  most  of  the  wealthy  young  men  of  the  day — its  founders  are 
said  to  have  been  the  Princes  of  Orleans,  the  Prince  de  la  Moskowa, 
MM.  Ernest  Leroy,  A.  Fould  and  Charles  Lafitte. 

Louis  Philippe,  after  the  death  of  his  son,  the  Duke  of  Orleans,  be- 
came a  staunch  patron  of  the  Turf.  He  caused  to  be  laid  out  at  his 
beautiful  estate  of  Neuilly,  somewhat  after  the  fashion  and  example  of 
the  renowned  Duke  of  Richmond,  at  Goodwood  Park,  a  Course  for  the 
amusement  of  himself  and  his  then  loving  subjects.  From  the  descrip- 
tions we  have  seen,  we  are  led  to  presume  that  this  place  of  recreation 
partook  more  of  the  character  of  the  ancient  Hippodrome,  than  a  mod- 
ern Race  Course,  It  is  represented  to  have  been  400  feet  in  length ; 
its  Champs  d'  Exercise  being  about  110  yards ;  the  whole  surrounded  by 
a  wall,  with  suitable  buildings  in  the  enclosure,  to  accommodate  specta- 
tors. The  Olympian  Hippodrome,  near  the  city  Elis,  was,  in  like  man- 
ner, enclosed  by  a  wall  ;  the  circuit  of  the  Course  adorned  by  magnifi- 
cent temples,  occupying  the  places  of  what,  in  modern  times,  would  be 
styled  grand  stands,  booths,  &c. 

The  Emperor  and  the  Grand  Duke  of  Russia  formed  extensive  studs 
in  1840,  to  establish  races  in  their  dominions.  They  each  imported 
from  England  many  well-bred  horses,  trainers  and  Jockiea. 

Racing  is  proceeding  in  Germany  with  great  rapidity.  In  proof  of 
this,  it  is  only  necessary  to  state,  that  the  Grand  Diike  of  Mecklenburgh 
Schwerin  gave  the  immense  price  of  three  thousand  guineas  for  Rocking- 
ham, a  stallion  that  took  his  fancy.  Baron  Biel,  from  his  attachment  to 
the  sport,  and  his  endeavors  to  promote  it,  has  been  ''yclept,  by  the  cele- 
brated Nimrod,  (the  most  admired  and  popular  of  all  writers  on  sport- 
ing subjects,)  the  Sir  Charles  Bunbury  of  Germany. 

The  Duke  of  Schleswig-Holstein,  in  the  north  of  Germany,  is  a  breed- 
er of  the  thorough-bred  on  a  very  extensive  scale.  He  is  well  known  in 
Europe,  not  only  as  contributing  in  France  to  the  sports  of  the  Turf,  but 
his  name  is  excellent  in  all  sporting  circles,  as  connected  with  a  very  ad- 
mirable work  he  put  forth  on  the  "  Utility  and  good  Effects  resulting  from 
the  institution  of  Horse  Races." 

The  Cape  of  Good  Hope  is  not  without  its  annual  meeting.  Lord 
Charles  Somerset  has  the  honor  accredited  to  him  of  establishing  races 
in  that  Colony,  by  importing  many  thorough-bred  horses  from  England, 
giving  various  prizes  to  be  run  for. 

At  the  Isle  of  France,  races  take  place  regularly  once  a  year. 


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At  Ceylon,  at  Colombo,  they  are  well  patronized  and  attended.  Two 
of  the  Governors  of  the  Island,  Sir  E.  Barnes  and  Sir  Robert  Horton, 
were  very  instrumental  in  giving  character  and  importance  to  them.  Sir 
E.Bai Ties,  being  a  connoisseur  in  the  sport  when  he  was  Governor,  estab- 
lished a  jockey  club  at  this  place  ;  succeeded  in  the  office  by  Sir  Robert 
Horton,  that  gentlemen,  being  also  fond  of  the  amusement,  caused  the 
races,  by  the  countenance  and  support  he  gave  them,  to  be  kept  up  with 
much  spirit. 

In  India,  the  racing  is  quite  respectable,  from  the  quantity  as  well  as 
the  quality  of  the  sport  it  furnishes.  There  are  few  military  stations 
in  India,  that  have  not  got  a  Race  Course.  Race  week  in  Calcutta  and 
Bengal,  is  represented  to  be  very  attractive,  and,  like  our  race  week  in 
Charleston,  has  the  power  of  bringing  into  these  two  towns  from  the  adja- 
cent country,  all  who  have  a  desire  "  to  see,  and  to  be  seen,"  or  to  enjoy 
once  a  year,  in  the  unsophisticated  innocence  of  their  hearts,  the  animated 
spectacle  within  their  reach. 

At  Bengal,  some  curious  stakes  have  been  established — among  others, 
"  The  ATatrimonial  Stakes.'^  The  principal  condition  of  this  race,  is  that 
the  rider,  who  happens  to  be  the  winner,  is  allowed,  as  the  meed  of  his 
victory,  to  choose  from  the  unmarried  ladies  of  the  station,  one,  who,  by 
the  rules  of  the  race,  is  obliged  to  marry  him.  She  must  take  him  "for 
better  or  for  worse,"  though  he  may  prove  much  worse  than  she  takes 
him  for. 

Another  very  eccentric  stake,  is  called  "  The  Cheroot  Stakes."  A  very 
graphic  description  of  these  stakes,  appeared  some  time  since  in  the 
London  New  Sporting  Magazine,  from  a  correspondent  in  India.  We 
will  take  the  liberty  of  borrowing  it.  The  writer  says  (this  is  the  Che- 
root Stakes :) 

"  Each  rider,  on  starting,  is  obliged  to  light  a  cigar  or  Cheroot,  and  to 
keep  it  alight  until  he  reaches  the  winning  post,  by  no  means  an  easy 
matter  to  be  accomplished.  The  distance  to  be  run  is  generally  two 
mile  heats,  so  the  quantity  of  smoke  to  be  consumed  is  not  a  trifling  one. 
The  start  takes  place  under  a  perfect  cloud,  each  person  puffino-  like  a 
steam  engine  at  first,  to  secure  a  good  light;  and  at  the  word  "off" 
away  goes  the  "  smoky  congregation"  at  tip-top  pace.  Some  pull  sud- 
denly up,  for  a  reason  inexplicable  to  the  looker-on.  Others  bolt  in  ihe 
direction  of  tlieir  bungalows,  apparently  by  mutual  consent  of  horse  and 
rider;  whilst  some  manage  to  pull  through  without  retaining  a  lio-ht 
and,  perliaps,  one  or  two  most  inveterate  smokers  "come  in"  in  as  (hick 
a  cloud  as  they  departed  with.  The  quantity  of  smoke  swallowed  is 
too  plainly  indicated  by  the  pale  faces  of  those  whose  Jir.d  trial  at  the 


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"'Clieroot  Stakes"  lias  proved  to  them  that  it  is  not  such  an  easy  under- 
taking as  it  appears.  The  second  heat  is  generally  left  to  a  select  few, 
as  a  natural  consequence — at  tlie  termination  of  which,  both  winners 
and  losers  are  glad  enough  to  relieve  their  smoke-dried  palates  with 
bumpers  of  pale  ale ;  and  for  the  next  month,  race  dinners,  race  balls, 
and  gaiety  of  every  description,  are  the  sole  occupation  to  be  found  at 
cantonments." 

A  Race  Course  has  been  established  in  China.  A  correspondent  of 
the  London  Sporting  Magazine  observes  that  "  the  Race  Course,  as  you 
may  suppose,  approached,  as  nearly  as  possible,  to  the  state  in  which  na- 
ture had  formed  it,  the  turns  and  angles  not  being  upon  all  occasions  the 
most  easy  to  accomplish  ;  one  in  particular,  was  called  '  Promotion  Cor- 
ner,' from  the  repeated  falls  and  other  accidents  experienced  at  that 
point ;  but,  strange  to  say,  without  the  expected,  and,  perhaps,  too  fre- 
quently hoped  ibr,  result.  That  everything  should  approximate,  as  near- 
ly as  possible,  to  the  manner  which  things  are  done  in  England,  we  es- 
tablished a  'Tattersall's,'  where  Ave  all  met,  and  in  due  form  arranged 
our  little  bets  and  other  sporting  matters. 

"The  minor  amusements  contingent  to  country  races,  were  by  no  means 
forgotten  ;  and  throwing  at  the  snuff-boxes,  thimble-rig  and  pricking  in 
the  garter,  were  well  supported  by  the  crowds  of  both  soldiers  and  sail- 
ors, who,  upon  every  occasion,  thronged  the  Course,  and  which  would 
have  done  credit  to  the  olden  times,  when  such  games  were  allowed, 
either  at  Epsom,  or  Ascot  Heath." 

The  passion  of  the  Arabs  for  Horse  Racing  is  without  bounds.  Horse 
Racing  occurs  on  the  Island  of  Zanzibar  once  a  week. 

We  need  hardly  say  anything  about  the  connection  of  our  own  Turf 
in  America  with  that  of  the  mother  countr)^  Is  there  any  one  so  little 
acquainted  with  American  Turf  history,  as  not  to  know  that  we  obtained 
from  England  our  best  and  only  stock  of  race  horses,  and  that  horses 
were  running  with  distinction  on  this  continent  (in  the  ancient  colony 
of  Virginia),  long  before  any  stud  book  appeared  in  England  ? 

Bulle  Rock,  foaled  in  1718,  was  imported  into  Virginia  in  1730. 
He  was  got  by  the  Darley  Arabian,  the  sire  of  Flying  Childers  (as  I 
have  already  stated  above),  his  dam  by  the  famed  Byerley  Turk,  the  an- 
cestor of  the  English  "  patriarchs,"  Partner  and  Herod,  grandam  by  the 
Lister  Turk,  out  of  a  natural  Arabian  mare. 

With  regard  to  the  horses  of  America  in  different  parts  of  the 
country,  we  will  merely  say,  that  they  originated  from  various  nations. 
Columbus,  on  his  second  voyage  in  1493,  brought  over  with  him  many 


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horses  from  Spain ;  but  Cabaca  de  Vaca  was  tbe  first  person  who  im- 
ported horses  into  any  part  of  the  country  now  a  part  of  the  United 
States.  He  landed  them  in  Florida,  in  1527.  They  were  turned  loose, 
and  soon  increased  wonderfully.  In  1609,  a  stallion  and  six  mares  were 
imported  into  Virginia  from  England.  In  1625,  there  was  brought 
over  a  few  horses  from  Holland  to  New  Netherlands,  now  New  York. 
The  first  horse  brought  into  the  State  of  Massachusetts  was  from  Eng- 
land, in  1629.  In  1678,  horses  existed  in  great  numbers  in  Louisiana, 
Illinois  and  Texas ;  wild  herds,  of  Spanish  extraction,  were  found  roam- 
ing over  our  western  prairies,  when  the  West  was  first  explored. 

Bancroft's  History  of  the  United  States,  also,  informs  us,  that,  in 
1656,  "the  horse  was  multiplied  in  Virginia,  and  to  improve  that  noble 
animal  was  an  early  object  of  pride,  favored  by  legislation — speed  was 
especially  valued." 

Virginia  has  Jong  been  regarded  as  the  race-horse  region  of  America. 
Her  ascendency  on  the  Turf  for  many  years  was  very  decided — how 
could  it  have  been  otherwise,  when  we  take  into  account  her  many 
brood  mares  of  pure  lineage,  from  the  times  of  Bulle  Rock,  and  Dab- 
ster, of  contemporaneous  repute  with  Bulle  Rock  (they  being  in  Vir- 
ginia what  a  Barb  or  Arabian  was  in  England),  which  have  been 
crossed  with  the  famed  imported  stallions  from  Jolly  Roger  and  Fear- 
nought, to  the  days  of  Medley,  Shark,  Bedford,  Gabriel,  Diomed,  Ster- 
ling, Spread  Eagle,  Archduke,  Sir  Harry,  Chance,  and  others,  especially 
her  own  Sir  x\rchy,  deemed  the  best  American  bred  stock-getter  that 
ever  covered  in  this  country,  getting  racing  stock  out  of  all  sorts  of 
irares,  being,  on  both  sides,  of  the  best  English  blood — by  Diomed,  out 
of  Castianira,  by  Rockingham — grandam  by  Trentham,  great  grandam 
by  Bosphorus.  Virginia  derived  the  still  further  benefit  of  later  import- 
ations fi'om  England  (too  numerous  to  mention  here),  besides  having 
had  a  visit  to  the  Old  Dominion  fvoxw  the  famed  American  Eclipse,  that 
had  for  his  rivals  in  the  stud  such  horses  as  Timoleon,  Monsieur  Ton- 
son,  Sir  Charles,  Virginian,  and  others  of  the  native  stallions,  most 
popular  in  their  day. 

It  is  but  fair  and  proper  to  say  in  this  place,  that  Virginia  was  fur- 
nished with  the  parent  of  one,  at  least,  of  her  best  strains  from  importa- 
tions into  New  York — the  celebrated  Lath  and  Wildair  were  both  im- 
ported by  Mr.  DeLancy  of  New  York,  the  latter  in  1760  or  1761,  the 
former  in  1768.  Old  Messenger,  the  maternal  grandsire  of  Ameiican 
Eclipse,  was  also  landed  there  in  1788.  Besides  Lath  and  Wildair,  Mr. 
DeLancy  impoi'ted  two  as  I'cmarkably  fine  mares,  and  of  as  good  blood, 
as  England  in  those  days  could  boast.    Fair  Rachel,  a  chesnut,  foaled 


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in  1753,  by  Babraharn,  son  of  the  Godolphin  Arabian,  was  one  of  tbem, 
and  "  the  Cub  mare"'  was  the  otlier,  by  Cub,  son  of  old  Fox.  From  this 
mare,  and  the  liorse  Wildair,  Mr.  DeLancy  bred  the  noted  running 
mare,  Slamerkin.  She,  after  a  few  years,  was  bought  by  the  late  Mr. 
Goode  of  Virginia,  the  father  of  Mr.  John  C.  Goode,  of  Mecklenburg 
county,  in  that  State.  She  produced  a  filly  by  tlie  imported  horse 
Obscurity,  a  son  of  Eclipse,  which  filly  was,  in  course  of  time,  put  to 
imported  Robin  Redbreast,  who  was  got  by  Sir  Peter  Teazle,  out  of  the 
famous  mare  Wren  by  Woodpecker.  She  produced  a  filly,  which  Mr. 
Goode  named  "  the  Robin  mare."  This  mare  was  for  several  seasons, 
successfully  covered  by  Sir  Archie,  and  by  him  brought  the  celebrated 
racers.  Rattler,  Sumpter,  Flying  Childers,  and  Flirtilla. 

The  result  of  all  this  successful  breeding  in  Vii-gina,  was  gradually  to 
distribute  among  her  sister  States  the  produce  of  some  of  her  best  mares 
from  the  old  English  stock.  Though  she  took  care  to  retain  many  at 
home,  yet  some  of  their  best  bred  horses  found  their  way  North,  South, 
East  and  West ;  supplying  weapons  that  were  destined  ultimately  from 
time  to  time  to  defeat  herself  with.  "  She  cast  her  bread  upon  the 
waters,"  and  she  found  it  again,  to  her  cost,  after  many  years. 

In  the  infancy  of  our  Turf,  "  when  George  the  Third  was  king,"  South 
Carolina  purchased  and  transferred  to  her  borders  many  Virginia  brood 
mares,  got  by  the  noted  horses  Fearnought,  Shadow,  Lofty  and  Sentinel. 
This  was  the  foundation  of  our  racing  stock,  whence  sprung  the  Ber- 
trand  families;  in  later  times.  New  York  availed  herself  of  the  benefit 
of  the  blood  of  Duroc,  Henry,  and  the  Lady  Lightfoot  families ;  and 
now  the  West  is  certainly  going  ahead,  performing  some  glorious 
achievements  with  the  issue  of  Bostox. 

In  this  way  competition  was  begun,  and  has  been  continued  through- 
out the  length  and  breadth  of  the  land — a  fancy  for  the  sports  of  the 
Turf  strengthening  with  the  strength  and  spreading  with  the  increase 
and  w'ealth  of  our  people — breeding  and  running  horses  in  all  parts  of 
the  country  advancing  in  value,  bringing  incredible  prices — grand 
matches  continually  made,  and  decided  in   marvellously  quick  time — 

the   interest  awakened   in  all  such  events  immense — an  enthusiastic  de- 

» 

sire,  particularly  demonstrated  in  Hie  South  and  the  South- Western 
Slates,  for  possessing  the  best  thorough-bred  stock,  by  the  wealthy 
agriculturists,  and  the  high  prices  paid  for  animals  that  took  their 
fancy,  atfording  ample  remuneration  to  every  judicious  breeder.  Our 
Race  Courses,  too,  have  been  gi'catly  multiplied,  after  the  example  of 
England,  so  that  we  number  now  almost  as  many  places  of  meeting  as 
she  does.     From  the  best  information  I  can  procure,  it  may  be  set  down 


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•with  safety,  that  there  are  now  about  oue  hundred  known  places  of 
sport,  or  Race  Grounds,  in  the  United  States,  most  of  which  are  under 
the  jurisdiction  of  their  own  Jockey  Club,  and  subject  to  its  laws.  At 
the  majority  of  these  Courses,  there  are  two  meetings  annually,  continu- 
ing from  four  to  six  days  each,  and  races  of  heats  are  invariably  run, 
with  bat  few  exceptions,  one  of  which  is  a  single  heat  of  three  miles, 
the  last  race  of  every  season,  over  the  Washington  Course,  at  Charles- 
ton, South  Carolina.  All  other  races  are  generally  from  one  to  four 
miles,  the  horses  being  graduated  to  the  length  of  the  race. 

Many  of  these  Courses  are  enclosed,  affording  thereby  much  conve- 
nience to  trainers,  comfort  to  spectators,  and  a  greater  facility  in  pre- 
serving order,  besides  adding  considerably  to  the  splendor  of  the  spec- 
tacle and  to  the  funds  of  the  Club,  without  being  altogether  dependent 
upon  the  annual  subscriptions  of  members. 

On  these  different  Courses,  the  purses  offered  may  be  safely  set  down 
at  one  hundred  thousand  dollars,  besides  a  considerable  sum  in  colt 
stakes.  Here,  then,  is  a  large  premium  given  annually,  but  given  for 
what  purpose  ?  and  to  whom  ?  Why,  to  the  promotion  of  agriculture, 
and  the  enrichment  of  \h.Q  farmer  !  Who  breeds  the  horses,  and,  if  he 
does  not  breed  them,  who  supplies  their  neighbors  with  the  feed  for 
them,  their  grooms,  stable  boys,  &c.  ?  Who  but  the  farmer  ! — to  him 
ultimately  all  the  profits  must  go,  whilst  others  are  content  only  to  par- 
ticipate in  the  amusement. 

We  have  harped  a  great  deal  upon  the  fact  of  the  increased  value  of 
thorough-bred  stock,  brought  about  by  racing.  We  wonder  what  the 
people  of  the  olden  time  would  have  thought  of  prcsmij^nces,  compared 
with  those  they  were  in  the  habit  of  giving.  The  difference  is  immense. 
I  will  give  a  proof  of  it. 

It  will  be  recollected  by  every  one,  if,  as  quaint  old  Chaucer  says, 

"  His  study  was  but  little  of  the  Bible," 

that  King  Solomon,  on  his  accession  to  the  throne,  could  not,  in  all  his 
glory^ioWow  the  example  of  his  father  David,  ?^^o  alivays  rode  a  mule — 
(by-the-bye,  the  old  gentleman  once  sent  this  said  mule  to  his  distinguished 
son,  offering  him  a  mount  to  come  and  see  him ;  and  it  is  wi'itten  that 
Solomon,  to  humor  the  whim  of  the  old  gentleman,  threiv  his  ley  over 
the  miclc,  and  went  to  meet  his  father) — and  it  will  be  further  remem- 
bered, that  King  Solomon  could  not  stand  the  manner  in  which  he 
found  the  royal  troops  accoutred  and  horsed  ;  therefore,  one  of  the  first 
things  we  hear  of  him,  on  taking  the  reins  of  government,  or,  to  use  a 


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more  ordinary  figure  of  speech,  more  classical  and  artistic  (as  used  by 
those  in  modern  days,  who  are  more  driving  than  Solomon  was  in 
making  a  bargain),  on  handling  the  ribbons  of  his  empire,  is  his  endeav- 
oring to  make  a  contract  with  Pharaoh,  the  King  of  Egypt,  to  supply 
him  with  horses — Egypt  being  the  only  country  then  where  good 
horses  were  to  be  had. 

This  mode  of  expression,  taking  the  reins,  or  handling  the  ribbons, 
seemingly  so  slight  and  flippant,  is,  nevertheless,  not  without  authority 
and  precedent,  in  the  profoundest  writings — Matthew  ITenry,  whose 
Commentaries  are  well  known,  writes  in  this  manner  on  the  ixth  chapter 
of  Judges  :  "  We  are  here  told,"  he  says,  "  by  what  acts  Abimelech  got 
into  the  saddle.'''' 

Abimelech  usurped  the  kingdom,  and  got  into  authority  by  a  very 
daring  act,  and,  as  might  have  been  expected,  he  soon  j-ode  over 
every  tiling.  Now  as,  by  a  very  easy  assc-iation  of  ideas  (vide  Locke 
on  the  Human  Understanding),  a  saddle  is  inseparable  from  a  ride,  we 
account  at  once  for  the  apt  and  significant  expression  used  by  Matthew 
B-emy,  ^^ got  into  the  saddle;''^  and  which,  we  cannot  doubt,  has  fur- 
nished a  precedent  for  a  great  many  similar  poetic  licenses,  and  equally 
elegant  figures  of  speech  which  have  come  down  to  us, "  taking  the  reins,^^ 
"  handling  the  ribbons,""  et  id  genus  omne. 

We  have  said  that  Egypt  was  the  only  country  in  the  time  of 
Solomon  where  good  horses  were  to  be  had  :  now,  Solomon  was  too 
fond  of  horses,  and  too  wise  a  prince,  not  to  have  them,  if  they 
could  be  anywhere  obtained  ;  yet  it  is  avouched  upon  authority  be- 
yond all  question,  that  Pharaoh  would  not  consent  to  let  his  finest 
horses  go  out  of  his  kingdom,  even  to  his  son-in-law  Solomon,  "  without 
a  great  tribute''' — that  tribute  was  one  hundred  and  fifty  shekels  of 
silver.  Now,  this  is  what  we  want  to  get  at  and  show,  namely,  that 
when  Solomon  reigned,  which  was  above  two  thousand  eight  hundred 
years  ago,  picked  horses,  the  best  breed  in  the  world  then  (doubtless 
pure  Arabians,  or  their  descendants),  when  estimated  at  the  highest 
possible  price,  commanded  only  150  shekels  of  silver!  (A  shekel  is 
about  two  shillings  and  four  pence  halfpenny,  English  monej,  only 
about  half  a  dollar  of  our  currency  !) 

I  wonder  what  the  great  Pharaoh  would  have  thought,  and  King 
Solomon  also,  "  with  his  forty  thousand  stalls  of  horses  for  his  chariots, 
and  twelve  thousand  horsemen,"  of  the  prices  asked  now,  and  sometimes 
obtained — pairs  of  well  bred  horses  frequently  bringing  $1,500  ;  very 
fitst  trotters,  twice  that  amount;  to  say  nothing  of  the  value  occasion- 
ally put  upon  Sk  favorite  thorough  bred,  $20,000.     This  amount,  I  know, 


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was  offered  onco  for  Monarch,  and  is  now  asked  for  Lecompte  ! 
$15,000,  it  is  stated,  has  been  readily  obtained,  of  late,  for  Lexington  ! 
Priam  cost  over  $25,000,  landed  in  America.  Bertrand  would  have 
brought,  at  one  time,  $35,000,  if  his  owner  would  have  parted  with 
him. 

And  is  tliere  no  importance  to  be  attached  to  the  having  the  means 
within  our  reach,  in  case  of  war,  of  forming  serviceable  bodies  of  cav- 
alry, at  the  shortest  possible  notice,  to  defend  our  now  annually  more 
and  more  extending  limits  ? 

Who  can  put  his  eyes  upon  one  of  our  noble  coursers,  when,  like 
Diomed,  as  old  Homer  said — 

"  He  rises  on  the  toe  ; — that  spirit  of  his 
In  aspiration  lifts  him  from  the  earth" — 

with  head  erect,  arched  neck,  and  eyes  flashing  light  and  intelligence, 
and  not  at  once  think  what  a  glorious  charger  such  a  horse  would 
make,  or  would  have  made,  in  the  proudest  days  of  ancient  chivalry  ! 
Who  but  at  once  imagines,  that  "  though  the  quiver  rattled  against 
him,  the  glittering  spur  and  the  shield,  he  would  not  turn  his  back 
from  the  sword  ;  he  would  smell  the  battle  afar  off,  the  thunder  of  the 
captains,  and  the  shouting." 

How  well  does  the  sight  of  a  fine  thorough-bred  enable  us  at  once  to 
recognize  the  grandeur  of  Job's  magiiificent  description  of  a  war-horse! 
When  we  look  at  liis  loin,  do  we  not  immediately  see  the  force  of 
Job's  words  :  "  He  has  given  the  horse  strength  ;  he  paweth  in  the 
valley,  and  rejoiceth  in  his  strength  !"  When  we  look  at  liis  neck,  do 
we  not  see,  as  Job  says,  that  "  He  has  clothed  his  neck  with  thunder  !" 
When  we  look  at  the  fire  in  his  eye,  do  we  not  remember  this  express- 
ive language  :  "  He  cannot  be  made  afi-aid  as  a  grasshopper  ;  he  mock- 
eth  at  fear,  and  is  not  atfrighted.''  When  Ave  see  his  dilated  nostrils, 
still  further  are  we  impressed  with  the  tmth  and  power  of  the  sacred 
description  :  "The  glory  ot  his  nostrils  is  terrible  !" 

And  are  there  not  some  admirable  lessons  to  be  learned  from  the 
life  and  the  character  of  the  horse  ?  What  a  homily  does  his  obedience 
furnish  ?  He  is  all  fire,  but  he  gives  not  way  to  the  impetuosity  of  his 
nature — a  bridle  is  upon  ?iis  passions — lie  feels  it  his  duty  to  obey, 
therefore  checks  his  inclinations,  whenever  they  would  dispose  him  to 
run  riot,  submitting  with  patience  to  the  hand  that  guides  him.  He  is 
content  to  lose  his  own  identity,  "  to  live,  and  move,  and  liave  his 
being,"  as  it  were,  by  the  tuill  of  another — he  receives  the  chastisements 
of  his  master,  and  immediately  amends  his  ways.     In  a  word,  how  truly 


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may  it  be  said,  that  he  not  only  "  loves  him  that  is  set  in  authority  over 
Iiini,  with  all  his  heart,  and  with  all  his  mind,"  but  "  with  all  his 
strength''^  serves  him  faithfully  all  the  days  of  his  life,  and,  even  more 
than  this,  sometimes  lays  down  his  life  the  better  to  serve  him  ! 

What  a  contrast  is  this  to  human  conduct!  Can  we  learn  nothing 
from  it  ? 

Yes  !  As  the  sluggard  is  told  to  go  to  the  out  to  learn  wisdom  and 
industry — he  who  lacketh  understanding  may  with  like  propriety  be 
told  to  go  to  the  horse,  and  learn  from  his  docilitg  and  obedience 

The  Whole  Duty  of  Man  ! 

Seeing,  then,  that  Racing  produced  the  thorough-bred  horse — the 
noblest  and  most  elegant  of  animals  evev  appropriated  to  the  use  of 
man — profitable  for  instruction  as,  well  as  for  use;  and  that  Rachig 
also  renders  a  ve]y  important  service  to  the  country,  by  benefiting  the 
agricultural  interests,  in  every  n<-ighborhood  where  a  taste  for  fine 
horses  prevails — with  this  agreeable  view  of  the  subject,  we  will  now 
say,  as  every  special  pleader  observes,  when  he  flatters  himself  he  has 
successfully  introduced  his  case :  "  We  close  for  the  present." 


PART   III. 


Now  attest 
That  those  whom  you  call'd  Fathers,  did  be^et  you ! 

Show  us  here 
The  mettle  of  your  pasture  :  let  us  swear 
That  you  are  worth  your  breeding. 

Shakspeare. 

Genus  nobilc  equorum. 


"No  common  horses,  the  sons  and  daughters  of  the  famous  something  or  other. 
Evei-y  proficient  in  equine  pedigree  knows  that  the  genealogy  of  these  wonderful 
be.  StS  runs  through  a  long  list,  that  exists  in  a  direct  line,  between  them  and  the 
patriarchal  pair  that  munched  their  corn  in  the  Ark." 


|ktiiig    St^^^^^'^J^A^a, 


1734,  TO    THE    REVOLUTION,   1776. 


ABBREVIATIONS  USED  IN  THE  CALENDAR, 


h.  for  horse, 
g  for  geiaing. 
m.  for  mare. 
0  for  colt. 
f  for  filly. 
b.  for  bny. 
bl.  for  black, 
br.  for  brown, 
gr.  for  grey, 
ch.  for  ohesnut. 


ro.  for  roan. 

d.  for  dun. 

y  for  young. 

yrs.  for  years  old. 

$  for  dollars. 

£  for  pounds. 

h.  ft.  for  half  forfeit. 

ft.  for  forfeit. 

dr.  for  drawn. 

dis  for  distanced. 


Ages  from  the  first  of  May. 


YORK  COURSE, to 1 760. 

NEW  MARKET  COURSE, from 1 760  to  1792. 


It  is  upwards  of  a  century  since  racintj  commenced  in  Carolina,  as  a 
popular  pastime.  As  we  cannot  find  any  account  of  a  race  near  Charles- 
ton further  back  than  1734,  we  may  presume  to  fix  that,  as  the  first 
year  of  our  Turf  history.  The  earliest  I'ecord  that  exists  of  any  public 
running,  appears  in  the  South  Carolina  Gazette,  February  lst,l734.  The 
prize  was  a  saddle  and  bridle,  valued  at  £20.  The  race  was  run  on  the 
first  Tuesday  in  Febi-uary,  1734 — mile  heats — four  entries.  The  horses 
carried  ten  stone — white  riders.  This  was  one  of  the  stipulations  of  the 
race.  There  was,  also,  another  condition,  that  the  horses  should  be  en- 
tered on  the  Saturday  preceding  the  race.  This  race  took  place  on  a 
green  on  Charleston  Neck,  immediately  opposite  a  public  house,  known 
in  those  days  as  the  Bowling  Green  House.  The  Course  was  staked  out 
for  the  occasion  in  the  vicinity  of  the  spot,  wdiich  the  lower  depot  of 
the  South  Carolina  Railroad  now  occupies. 

In  the  following  year,  (1735,)  owners  of  fine  horses  were  invited, 
through  the  newspapers,  to  enter  them  for  a  purse  of  £100.  This  year, 
a  Course  was  laid  out  at  the  Quarter  House,  to  which  the  name  was 
given  of  "  The  York  Course^''  after,  it  may  be  presumed,  the  Course  of 
York,  in  England,  which  was  then  attaining  celebrity  as  a  Race  Ground. 
The  Toivn  Moor,  at  York,  had  become  as  well  attended,  at  stated  periods, 
by  Northern  sportsmen  in  England,  as  the  Heath,  at  New  Market,  hJid 
been,  for  many  years  previously,  by  the  Southern  supporters  of  the  Eng- 
lish Turf;  hence  it  seems  probable  that,  in  establishing  a  new  Course  at 
Charleston,  the  name  of  York  was  selected  and  conferred  upon  it.  This 
opinion  is  strengthened  by  the  fact,  that,  in  subsequent  years,  when 
another  Course  was  laid  out  and  established  south  of  the  York  Course, 
the  appropriate  name  was  given  to  it  of  New  Market. 

From  year  to  year,  racing  was  continued  over  "  The  York  Course, 
either  in  the  month  of  February,  or  beginning  of  March  ;  the  prize 
being  generally  a  silver  bowl,  or  a  silver  waiter,  or  a  silver  tankard,  about 
the  value  of  £100  currency,  the  riders  never  carrying  less  than  ten 
stone." 

On  the  11th  March,  1743,  a  gold  watch,  valued  at  £140,  was  run  for. 

On  the  24th  February,  1744,  over  the  same  Course,  a  very  amusing 
race  was  contested,  for  a  finely  embroidered  jacket,  of  the  value  of  £90. 

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Eafh  man  rode  his  adversary's  liorse;  the  one  that  came  in  last  took  the 
jacket. 

On  tlif;  2d  Thursday  in  March,  1747,  races  were  lield  in  the  Ponds' 
ol<l  field,  near  Dorchester,  for  the  first  time,  which  were  continued  for  a 
few  yoai's. 

Up  to  this  time,  not  many  full  hlood  horses  had  been  imported  into 
tlie  Province  ;  but  soon  after,  some  well-hied  liorses  and  mai'es  were 
brought  from  En2;!and.  Many  planters  raised  their  own  horses,  and 
sold  annually  one  or  more  colts,  or  fillies;  South  Carolina,  as  well  as 
Virginia  and  North  Carolina,  producing  some  fine  animals. 

liefore  the  year  1754,  the  horses  most  regarded  in  S<nilh  Ca!olina,-for 
general  nse,  the  draft  or  the  saddle,  were  known  as  the  Chickasaw  breed. 

This  was  a  stock  of  horses  originally  introduced  into  Florida,  by  the 
early  Spanish  discoverers.  They  were  in  gener.'d  well-foiined,  active  and 
easily  kept,  but  small.  The  mares  seldcmi  exceeded  thirteen  hands  and 
a  lialf;  but  being  remarkable  for  their  muscular  development  and  great 
endurance,  when  crossed  with  the  imported  thorough-bred.s,  produced 
animals  of  great  beauty,  strength  and  fleetness,  in)proving  thereby  the 
stock  of  the  country  in  a  very  great  degree. 

In  consequence  of  the  inconvenient  distance  of  "  the  York  Course" 
from  the  city  of  Charleston,  and  with  a  view  to  slill  further  encourage 
and  improve  the  breed  of  good  horses,  it  was  deemed  advisable  to  estab- 
lish a  new  Course  nearer  town. 

This  was  accordingly  done  by  subscription  in  the  year  l7o4  ;  the  new 
Course  being  laid  out  about  a  mile  from  the  city.  It  was  announced  to 
the  public  as  "  The  Neio  Market  Coursed 

Races  took  place  on  it,  for  the  first  time,  on  the  19th  February,  1760, 
under  the  proprietorship  of  Mr.  Thomas  Nightingale,  a  Yorkshireman 
by  birth,  the  grandfather  of  our  highly  respected  fellow-townsman.  Dr. 
Joseph  .Johnson.  This  Course  was  situated  on  the  Common  on  Charles- 
ton Neck,  commonly  known  as  Blake's  Tract,  through  which  the  Rail- 
road now  runs,  immediately  on  leaving  the  upper  depot.  The  Course 
took  in  the  whole  of  the  unenclosed  ground  between  King-street  road 
and  the  low  ground  to  the  east  of  Meeting-street.  Meeting- street  road, 
however,  did  not  exist  in  those  days,  and  the  starting-post  was  fixed  at 
first  at  the  north-west  corner  of  the  field  on  King-street  road  ;  it  was  af- 
terwards moved,  when  the  Meeting-street  road  was  opened,  to  the  west- 
ern edge  of  the  Meeting-street  road,  as  it  now  exists,  immediately  on  the 
rise  of  the  hill,  half-way  between  Mr.  Paine's  farm  and  the  Lines.  For 
many  years,  however,  after  the  completion  of  the  Meeting-street  road, 
those  two  gi'eat  outlets  from  the  city,  viz.,  the  King-street  road  and  the 
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Meeting-street  road,  were  known  by  no  other  appellation  than  the  Big 
path,  and  the  Little  path.  Mr.  Niohtingale  continued  a  lease  of  the 
property,  on  which  he  laid  out  the  New  Market  Course,  until  the  year 
1770,  when  he  resigned  it  to  Mr.  Strickland  ;  the  Course  was  very  gene- 
rally called  Strickland^s,  whilst  under  the  direction  of  that  gentleman 
but  it  was  the  same  as  the  old  New  Market  Course. 

There  were  races  in  March.  l77l,  at  Cluilifinny. 

Mr.  Daniel  Ravenel,  referred  to  above,  bred  at  his  plantation,  called, 
*'  Wantoot,"  in  St.  John's  Parish,  many  fine  horses.  He  commenced  as 
early  as  the  year  1761.  His  prin(;ipal  brood  mares  were  Gray  Pleasant, 
Moll  Slammakin,  Lucretia  and  Paise.  His  most  distinguished  colts  and 
fillies  were  Foxhunter,  dropt  1767,  out  of  Gray  Pleasant,  by  Mr.  Edward 
Harleston's  bay  horse  Prince,  who  was  got  by  Mr.  Wm.  Middleton's  bay 
horse  Spotless — a  bay  filly  called  Carolina,  dropt  1768,  out  of  Moll 
Slammakin,  by  old  Brutus,  and  a  bay  filly  called  Lucy,  dropt  1773,  out 
of  Rose,  by  Frier  (imported).  Something  more  will  be  said  of  this 
celebrated  mare  in  another  part  of  this  book. 

Mr.  Ravenel  kept  up  his  bi'eeding  establishment  on  a  very  extensive 
scale  to  the  year  1785.  He  bred  at  different  seasons  from  Prince  by 
Spotless,  Starling,  Brutus,  Frier,  Flimnap,  all  imported  stallions. 

Mr.  Fi'ank  Huger,  who  lived  at  Midway,  in  the  same  parish  with  Mr. 
Ravenel,  also  owned  many  fine  horses.  The  late  Nicholas  Harleston, 
Esq.,  of  Bossis,  in  St.  Jolin's  Parish,  (who  was  himself  upon  the  Turf,) 
used  to  sav  that  Mr.  Huger  was  the  most  macpiificent  horseman  he  ever 
saw,  and  frequently  related,  in  justification  of  his  opinion,  the  following 
incident,  which  he  witnessed  : — He  said,  soon  after  the  celebrated  im- 
ported Arabian  horse,  Abdallah,  sixteen  hands  high,  and  never  ridden, 
arrived  in  {lie  country,  he  was  visited  at  his  stables  l)y  all  the  admirers 
of  horse  fiesh  in  the  vicinity.  On  one  of  these  occasions,  Abdallah 
having  been  led  out  before  the  crowd,  one  of  the  bystanders  jokingly 
observed  :  "  Huger,  you  are  an  intrepid  horseman  we  all  know,  but  you 
dare  not  mount  Abdallah  !"  Mr.  Huger,  without  a, remark,  immediately 
put  his  hand  upon  the  flowing  mane  of,  the  snorting  animal,  and  with 
one  bound  x'aulted  upon  his  back.  With  all  the  confidence  of  consum- 
inate  skill,  he  sat  like  an  equestrian  statue,  unmoved — like  a  Centaur,  a 
part  of  the  horse  himself,  guiding  with  a  steady  hand  the  astonished 
animal  around  the  enclosure,  with  an  ease  and  dexterity  astonishing  to 
every  beholder. 

After  the  year  1760,  an  increased  spirit  was  manifested  in  the  sports 
of  the  Turf  in  South  Carolina.  Races  were  announced  to  take  place 
in  various  sections  of  the  low  country.     In   1768,  there  were  races  on 


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the  22d  of  March,  at  Jacksonboronfjh  ;  in  1769.  in  the  month  of  Feb- 
ruary, at  Ferguson's  Ferry,  and  on  the  14th  of  March  of  tlie  same  year, 
at  Beaufort;  and  soon  after,  th«5y  were  in  successful  operation  at  Childs- 
hury,  or  Strawberry,  St.  John's  Parish.  Mr.  Daniel  Ravenel  and  the 
Harlestons  took  an  active  part  in  keeping  up  the  ra<'cs  at  the  latter 
place.  The  race  ground  was  laid  out  within  a  short  distance  from  the 
Ferrv,  a  little  to  the  left  of  the  chapel,  as  you  ascend  the  hill.  This 
meeting  was  a  very  popular  one  for  many  years,  attended  by  many  of 
the  owners  of  fine  horses  throughout  the  State.  The  races  having  been 
discontinued  in  1822,  the  Course  was  ploughed  up  and  planted.  It 
formed  a  portion  of  the  estate  of  the  late  John  Coming  Ball,  Esq.,  who 
bequeathed  it  to  his  nephew,  Dr.  J.  B.  Waring,  its  present  proprietor. 

It  is  probable  many  will  suppose  that  the  contests  which  took  place 
up  to  this  period  on  the  South  Carolina  Turf,  could  have  been  little  better 
than  what  would  be  regarded  in  the  present  day  as  scrub  races;  but  this 
was  far  fiom  being  the  case.  It  is  tiue  many  of  the  horses  that  ran 
were  without  pure  pedigrees,  generally  the  sons  and  daughters  of  old 
Brutus,  out  of  half  bred  mares,  yet  Shadow  and  Centinel,  and  some 
others,  were  in  training  "of  equally  just  renown,"  all  of  whom  will  be 
particularly  noticed  in  the  progress  of  this  history. 

The  first  race  in  South  Carolina  which  seemed  to  produce  any  very 
imusual  excitement,  was  a  match  January  Slst,  1769,  between  Mr.  Wm. 
Henry  Drayton's  roan  horse  Adolphus,  6  years  old,  by  Brutus,  and  bred 
in  Carolina,  and  Mr.  Thomas  Nightingale's  imported  b.  h.  Shadow,  aged, 
bv  Babraham,  carrying  9  stone  each,  4  mile  heats,  over  the  New  Market 
Course.  Shadow  won  both  heats  easil)',  in  8  minutes  and  30  seconds. 
Although  at  starting  the  otids  were  three  to  one  on  the  winner,  there 
was  an  immense  excitement  growing  out  of  the  race,  it  being  the  first 
match  that  was  run  between  an  imported  and  native  horse.  Shadow, 
after  winning  this  match,  challenged  any  liorse  in  the  province. 

Shadow  covered  twenty  mares  in  the  spring  of  the  same  year,  (1769,) 
at  £5  sterling.  He  stood  at  Walnut  Hill,  near  Dorchester.  He  after- 
wards was  removed  to  Col.  Singleton's  plantation  at  Goose  Creek,  where 
he  remained  until  the  season  of  1771. 

The  most  distinguished  running  horses  in  the  infancy  of  the  Turf  in 
Carolina,  were  Shadow,  Centinel,  Borrock  Billy,  Young  Brutus,  Babra- 
ham, Skim,  Noble  and  Flag-a-Truce. 

Shadow  was  bred  in  England  by  Lord  Northumberland,  foaled  in 
1750,  by  Babraham,  Bolton  Starling,  Coughing  Polly,  by  Bartlett's 
Childers. 

Centinel  was  an  imported  ch.  h.,  bred  by  the  Duke  of  Ancaster,  by 


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Blank,  out  of  a  mare  by  Cade,  out  of  the  dam  of  Spectator.  He  was 
brought  into  the  province  in  1767.  Having  won  several  races  in  Eng- 
land, immediate!}'  on  his  arrival  he  challenged  any  horse  in  South  Caro- 
lina, to  run  four  mile  heats,  carrying  10  stone  against  9  stone,  for  100 
or  200  pounds.  His  challenge  was,  in  the  course  of  a  few  days,  accepted 
by  the  owners  of  a  remarkably  powerful  horse,  named  Goliah,  provided 
each  would  carry  30  stone.  Such  an  unreasonable  proposition  was,  of 
course,  not  responded  to. 

Borrock  Billy  was  by  old  Cade,  a  son  of  the  Godolphin  Arabian,  out 
of  Eastby  Snake,  by  Partner. 

Young  Brutus  was  by  old  Brutus,  and  Babraham  by  old  Babraham. 

Skim  was  a  very  speedy  horse.  He  was  by  Cullen's  Arabian,  imported 
as  a  five  year  old  from  England,  in  November,  1760.  He  ran  for  some 
time  successfully  both  in  Charleston  and  Georgetown,  and  races  in  the 
vicinity.  He  afterwards  covered  at  Mr.  John  Mayrant's  plantation  at 
Santee,  at  £20. 

Noble  was  another  very  distinguished  horse ;  he  was,  perhaps,  the 
most  successful  native  horse  of  his  day.  He  was  by  old  Brutus,  out  of 
Squirt,  g.  dam  by  Starling,  g.  g.  d.  by  Bettel's  Arabian,  g.  g.  g.  d.  by  Cham- 
pion, g.  g.  g.  g.  d.  by  Barley's  Arabian,  who  was  the  sire  of  Flying  Chil- 
ders.  Noble  ran  successfully  up  to  the  spring  of  1767,  proving  himself 
possessed  of  great  speed  and  endurance.  The  famous  Centinel  was  of 
his  day,  but  they  never  met.  This  the  owner*  of  Noble  were  anxious 
to  bring  about.  They  followed  him,  therefore,  from  place  to  place  for 
some  time;  at  last  they  tendered  a  direct  challenge  to  liiin  or  any  other 
horse  in  the  world,  lo  run  a  m;itc,h,  four  mile  heats,  over  the  New  Market 
Course,  near  Charleston,  S.  C,  for  one  thousand  guineas,  weight  for  age; 
but,  as  the  ownei's  of  Noble  were  particularly  anxious  to  meet  Centinel, 
they  proposed  that  if  he  (Centinel)  would  accept  the  challenge,  to  give 
up  seventeen  pounda  of  the  weight  Noble  had  a  right  to  from  ditference 
of  age.  Centinel  had  previously,  on  his  arrival  from  England,  oftered  to 
run  agaisist  any  horse  in  America,  but  did  not  think  it  prudent  at  this 
time,  from  one  of  tliose  "  many  ills  that  all  flesh  is  heir  to,"  to  take  up 
the  gauntlet  thus  boldly  thrown  down  by  Noble. 

There  is  a  tankard  now  in  the  possession  of  the  "  Mathews"  family, 
which  was  won  by  this  horse  (from  Gov.  Morton),  when  owned  by  Col. 
"Wilkinson  of  the  Continental  Army.  The  tankard  is  a  large  an<l  richly 
carved  vessel  of  English  manufacture.  A  member  of  the  Mathews 
famil}',  in  reference  to  this  subject,  writes  me  word,  "that  I  am  induced 
to  think  it  was  a  match  race  from  what  my  mother  relates,  as  well  as 
from  the  circumstance  of  its  having  Gov.  Morton's  coat  of  arms  engraved 


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upon  it.  She  seems  to  think  that  her  grandfather,  Col.  Wilkinson, 
staked  the  tankard  of  his  family  plate  against  this  of  Gov.  Morton." 

Flag-a-Truce,  an  imported  br.  h.,  by  Sober  John  out  of  Creeping  Kate, 
ran  well  prior  to  1*767.  His  owners,  naving  implicit  confidence  in  his 
superior  blood  and  ability,  offered  to  match  him  against  any  horse  of 
his  day,  weight  and  distance  to  be  agreed  on  by  the  parties.  This  chal- 
lenge not  being  accepted,  he  was  advertised  to  be  let  to  mares,  season  of 
176Y,  at  the  plantation  of  Mr.  Peter  Sinkler  in  St.  Stephen's  Parish,  and 
at  Mr.  Williamson's  plantation  near  Rantowle's,  at  £35. 

With  a  view  of  improving  the  breed  of  horses  in  the  Province,  some 
very  valuable  importations  of  blood-stock  took  place  about  this  time. 
As  many  of  the  fancy  stock  of  the  present  day  are  the  descendants  of 
the  horses  brought  into  Carolina  before  the  Revolution,  they  will  be 
enumerated,  as  particularly  as  information  will  allow  them  to  be,  from 
the  most  authentic  sources. 

Brutus,  a  ro.  h.,  (imported,)  foaled  1*748,  by  Regulus,  out  of  Miss 
Layton,  by  Partner,  bred  by  Mr.  Martindale. 

Oronooko,  an  imported  hi.  h.,  foaled  in  1745,  by  Crab,  out  of  Miss 
Slamerkin,  by  young  True  Blue,  bred  by  Lord  Portmore. 

Slouch,  an  imported  ch.  h.,  foaled  in  1747,  by  Cade,  out  of  Little 
Hartley  mare,  by  Bartlet's  Childers,  bred  by  Sir  John  Moore. 

Matchless,  an  imported  b.  h.,  foaled  in  1754,  by  the  Godolphin  Ara- 
bian, out  of  a  Sorelieels  m.,  bred  by  Mr.  Panton. 

Sweeper,  a  bl.h.,  (imported,)  foaled  in  1751,  by  Sloe,  dam  by  Mogul, 
a  son  of  the  Godolphin  Arabian. 

Toby,  a  ch.  h.,  rather  undersized — only  14|-  hands  high — got  by  old 
Janus  in  England.     He  was  owned  by  Col.  Alston,  of  North  Carolina. 

Cade  was  a  very  popular  stallion,  imported  in  1762,  as  a  5  yr.  old.  He 
was  descended  from  Old  Cade,  a  son  of  the  Godolphin  Arabian,  his  dam 
by  Hutton's  famous  Wormwood,  a  mare  in  great  repute  in  England. 
Cade's  sister,  belonging  to  Mr.  Duncomb,  won  the  1,200  guineas  at 
New  Market,  in  England,  24th  of  March,  1761,  beating  six  other.s, 
and  in  August  following,  she  Avon  the  King's  100  guineas,  at  Black  Ham- 
bleton,  in  Yorkshire,  beating  seven  others.  Cade's  brother,  belonging  to 
Mr.  Warren,  called  Sportsman,  won  the  100  guineas  at  New  Market, 
England,  16tli  of  x\pril,  1761,  beating  a  large  field,  besides  winning  sev- 
eral other  plates  and  prizes. 

Cade  covered  season  of  1763,  at  Mr.  Williamson's  plantation,  near 
Rantowle's  bridge,  at  £35,  where  he  continued  as  late  as  the  season  of 
1768.     He  received  none  but  mares  got  by  running  horses. 

Nonpareil,  a  famous  horse,  imported  in  1762,  covered  in  the  same 


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year  at  Mr.  Daniel  Iluger's  plantation,  in  St.  John's  Parish,  at  £20  cur- 
rency. 

A  b.  h.  railed  Prince,  by  Herod,  bred  by  Lord  Farnham,  out  of  Helen 
by  r)lank,  foaled  in  1773,  was  also  covering,  subsequently,  at  the  same 
place. 

Pharaoh  was  the  name  of  another  horse,  of  good  blood,  imported,  in 
1762,  from  England  ;  he  covered  near  Ashley  ferry  for  several  seasons — 
was  a  bay,  by  Moses,  foaled  in  1753,  out  of  a  Godolphin  Arabian  mare, 
bred  by  Lord  Gower. 

Tarquin,  imported  the  following  year,  1763,  stood  at  Mr.  John  Izard's 
plantation,  on  Ashley  River.  He  was  the  son  of  old  Tarquin,  by  an  Ara- 
bian horse. 

Pam,  imported  by  Mr.  Fenwiclce  in  1764,  covered  at  his  plantation,  on 
John's  Island,  at  £50  currency.  Pam  was  a  horse  of  high  blood,  by  Re- 
guliis,  dam  by  Cade;  won  in  1761, '62,  and  '63,  several  fine  races  at  New 
Market,  in  England,  and  other  places. 

Abdallah  was  the  name  given  to  a  famous  Arabian  horse  that  was  first 
carried  to  Gibraltar  from  Arabia,  thence  brought  to  Beaufort,  Port  Royal, 
by  Capt.  Barnes,  in  the  year  1767.  He  covered  at  £l5  his  first  season. 
In  February  of  the  same  year,  1767,  Mansell,  Corbett  &  Co.  imported, 
in  the  ship  Heatlicott,  Capt.  Hooper,  from  London,  two  very  fine  stal- 
lions, one  was  named  Sportsman,  a  dark  chesnut,  strong  and  bony,  and 
perfectly  sound,  got  by  a  son  of  Blaze,  whose  dam  was  by  Mr.  Leeds' 
Second,  a  son  of  Childers.  Sportsman's  dam  was  by  the  Golden  Bay; 
his  g.  dam  by  a  son  of  Lord  Bedford's  Arabian,  and  his  g.  g.  dam  by 
Bay  Bolton. 

The  other  was  a  fine  ch.  c,  4  yrs.  old,  named  Sprightl}-.  He  was  a 
colt  of  wSportsman,  mentioned  above,  out  of  a  Cartouch  mare,  g.  dam  by 
old  Cade.  Sprightly  had  been  trained  in  England,  and  won  a  plate  at 
Ludlow,  and  ran  second  in  a  large  field  for  a  stake  at  Salop. 

Tartar,  an  imported  horse,  belonging  to  the  estate  of  Robert  Hume, 
covered  for  several  seasons  at  Goose  Creek.  He  was  alive  as  late  as  the 
season  of  1767. 

Immediately  after  the  Charleston  Races  of  tliis  year,  in  March  1767, 
several  English  and  half-English  blood  mares  and  colts  were  sold  on  the 
Course,  belonging  to  the  estate  of  Robert  Hume.  Capt.  Parker,  of  the 
Nancy,  having  just  arrived  with  the  following  thorough  bi'eds  frouj  Eng- 
land, they  were  also  put  up  and  disposed  of  to  the  highest  bidders: 

A  b.  st-iUion,  8  yrs.  old,  by  Bosphorus,  out  of  a  mare  by  Tartar,  dam 
by  Regulus,  g.  dam  by  old  Cade,  g.  g.  dam  by  Bay  Bolton. 

A  br.  stallion  by  Snap,  out  of  Vanessa  by  Regulus. 


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A  ch.  f.,  3  yrs.  old,  by  Turpin,  out  of  a  mare  by  Babraham,  g.  dam  by 
old  Partner. 

Moro,  an  imported  horse,  covered  at  Mr.  Wm,  Henry  Drayton's  plan- 
tation, at  the  Horse  Shoe,  at  £o  sterling,  season  of  '69.  Moro  was  by 
Moro,  dam  by  Regulus,  g.  dam  by  Rib,  g.  g  dam  by  Partner,  g.  g.  g. 
dam  by  Greyhound,  g.  g.  g.  g.  dam  by  the  Curwin  Bay  Barb. 

It  is  an  interesting  fact,  not  generally  known,  that  the  agent  that  im- 
ported Moro  had  nearly  succeeded  in  importing  the  celebrated  Eclipse  in 
his  place.  He  liad  looked  at  him  and  made  an  oflPer,  which,  not  coming 
up  exactly  to  the  terms  proposed  by  the  owner,  the  offer  was  rejected. 
A  few  days  after,  the  owner  of  EcHpse  made  some  abatement  in  his 
terms,  which  would  have  been  acceded  to  had  not  the  American  agent 
purchased  Moro  in  the  mean  time.  By  the  merest  trifle,  then.  South 
Carolina  failed  in  obtaining  possession  of  the  most  remarkable  race 
horse  the  world  ever  saw. 

Fallower,  imported  by  Mr.  Fenwicke  in  1*766,  covered  for  several  sea- 
sons in  Carolina,  esteemed  in  England  a  horse  of  the  highest  blood.  He 
was  by  Blank,  his  dam  by  Partner,  g.  dam  by  Bloody  Buttocks,  his  g. 
g.  dam  by  Greyhound,  g.  g.  g.  dam  by  Makeless,  up  to  Dodsworth,  out 
of  a  Layton  Barb  mare.  Mr.  Fenwicke  sold  this  horse  very  soon  after 
his  arrival  in  this  country. 

Old  Starling  was  an  imported  horse  from  England ;  he  covered  in  St. 
John's  Parish,  from  1767  to  '72,  at  £.35  currency  ;  the  property  of  Wm. 
Moultrie,  Esq.  He  was  bred  by  Lord  Rockingham  ;  esteemed  by  good 
judges  the  handsomest  horse  in  America;  he  was  by  Starling  out  of  a 
mare  by  the  Godolphin  Arabian,  his  g.  dam  by  Childers,  g.  g.  dam  by 
True  Blue,  g.  g.  g.  dam  b3'  Cypress,  out  of  the  Duke  of  Rutland's  fa- 
mous mare  Bonny  Black. 

Antaeus,  another  imported  horse,  bred  by  John  Ward,  Esq.,  of  Kent, 
in  England,  was  by  Spectator;  he  covered  season  of  1771,  near  Jack- 
sonborough,  at  £35  currency. 

Snipe,  imported,  covered  near  Jacksonborough,  at  £35  currency,  in 
1772  and  '7.''.  Snipe  was  bred  by  the  Duke  of  Cumberland,  got  by 
Snap,  a  son  of  Snip,  a  son  of  the  Devonshire  Childers.  Snipe's  dam  was 
by  Blank ;  her  dam  by  the  Ancaster  Driver,  his  g.  dam  by  Smiling  Tom, 
her  g.  g.  dam  by  Oyster  Foot,  g.  g.  g.  dam  by  old  Merton. 

Mask,  an  English  horse,  by  young  Babraham,  out  of  a  mare  by  old 
Cade,  with  a  pedigree  running  up  to  the  Curwin  Bay  Barb,  covered  at 
Santee  in  1771,  at  £35  currency. 

Babraham,  a  b.  h.  by  old  Babraham,  out  of  a  Second  mare,  out  of  a 


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mare  by  Starling;  and  Lofty  by  Snap,  both  imported  horses,  covered  in 
1772,  at  Mr.  Arthur  Middlelon's  plantation,  on  Ashley  River. 

DafFodill,  advertised  as  a  thorough  bred  horse,  covered  at  a  place 
called  Cane  Acres,  at  five  guineas  sterling. 

Frier,  an  imported  stallion,  was  by  South,  out  of  an  own  sister  to  Sir 
James  Lowther's  Babraham.  South  was  by  Regulus,  his  dam  by  Sore- 
heels,  out  of  Sir  Ralph  Millbank's  famous  Makeless  mare.  Friar's  dam 
was  got  by  old  Brabraham,  his  g.  dam  by  Golden  BaU,  g.  g.  dam  by 
the  Hampton  Court  Childers,  out  of  Sophonisba.  Friar  was  foaled  in 
1760,  bred  by  Sir  John  Moore;  he  was  imported  into  Carolina  in  his  six 
year  old  form;  covered  his  first  season,  1767,  at  Mr.  Thomas  Boone's 
plantation,  Pon  Pon ;  afterwards,  up  to  season  of  1774,  at  Beach  Hill, 
at  £35  currency. 

Fhmnap,  an  imported  b.  h.,  foaled  in  1765,  by  South  out  of  a  Cygnet 
mare,  (Cygnet  was  by  the  Godolphin  Arabian,)  g.  dam  by  Cartouch  ;  g. 
g.  dam  by  Ebony,  by  Childers,  g.  g.  g.  dam  by  Ebony,  by  Basto.  He 
was  bred  by  Sir  John  Moore,  who  disposed  of  him  to  Sir  Watkin  Wil- 
liam Wynn.  At  the  saie  of  this  latter  gentleman's  stud,  Mr.  Mansell,  of 
the  firm  of  Mansell,  Corbett  &  Co.,  of  the  City  of  Charleston,  purchased 
him,  and  shipped  him  to  South  Carolina,  a  little  prior  to  the  Revolution, 
where  he  beat  all  the  best  horses  of  the  country,  among  others,  Mr. 
Nightingale's  celebrated  black  horse  Careless.  Flimnap  was  a  horse  of 
much  celebrity,  and  held  in  high  estimation  in  England.  He  covered  at 
Spring  Grove,  St.  Paul's  Parish,  at  £35  currency,  season  of  1774.  He 
became  afterwards  the  property  of  Major  Isaac  Childs  Harleston,  who 
removed  him  to  his  country  seat  at  "Irishtown,"  St.  Thomas'  Parish,  S. 
C,  where  he  stood  to  mares  for  many  years,  his  produce  proving  good 
runners,  and  highly  formed.  Although  rather  undersized,  only  fourteen 
hands  and  half  an  inch  in  height,  Flimnap  was  nevertheless  possessed  of 
the  bone  and  sinew  of  a  horse  of  sixteen  hands. 

The  following  is  an  extract  from  Josiah  Quincy's  Journal,  when  on  a 
visit  to  Charleston.  S.  C,  1773  : 

'■'■March  3. — Spent  this  day  in  viewing  horses,  riding  over  the  town, 
and  receiving  complimentary  visits. 

'■'■March  16. — Spent  the  morning,  ever  since  5  o'clock,  in  perusing 
public  records  of  the  Province,  &c.,  &c. ;  am  now  going  to  the  famous 
Races. 

"The  Races  were  well  performed  ;  but  Flimnap  beat  Little  David  (who 
had  won  the  last  sixteen  races)  out  and  out.  The  last  heat  the  former 
distanced  the  latter.  The  first  four  mile  heat  was  performed  in  eight 
minutes  and  seventeen  seconds,  being  four  miles.     £2,000  were  won  and 


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lost  nt  tliis  Race,  and  Flimnap  sold  at  public  vendue  the  same  day  for 
£300  sterling. 

"At  the  Races  I  saw  a  fine  collection  of  excellent  though  very  high 
priced  horses,  and  was  let  a  little  into  the  '  singular  art  and  mystery  of 
the  Turf.'  " 

In  reference  to  the  horses  of  South  Carolina,  Hewitt  also  observes  in 
his  work,  (2d  vol.  p.  303)  published  in  1779  : 

"The  horses  of  the  country,  though  hardy  and  serviceable  animals, 
made  little  figure,  and  therefore,  to  improve  the  breed,  many  have  been, 
of  late  years,  imported  from  England.  The  planters  being  fond  of  fine 
hoi'ses,  have  been  at  great  pains  to  raise  them,  so  that  they  now  have 
plenty,  of  an  excellent  kind,  both  for  the  carriage  and  the  Turf." 

Wars,  and  rumors  of  wars,  now  began  to  have  their  effect  upon  the 
popular  pastimes  of  the  Carolinians.  The  independence  of  the  country 
having  been  declared,  no  event  of  interest  on  the  Turf  occurred  for 
many  years.  Not  only  were  all  the  horses  thrown  out  of  training,  but 
on  the  appearance  of  Lord  Cornwallis'  army  in  the  low  country,  they 
were  either  used  as  chargers  by  those  who  had  taken  up  arms  in  the  de- 
fence of  the  country,  or  they  were  hid  in  the  swamps,  adjoining  the  dif- 
ferent plantations  on  which  they  were  bred,  to  prevent  them  from  being 
carried  off  by  the  British.  Several  anecdotes,  illustrative  of  the  times 
which  "  tried  men's  souls,"  have  been  communicated  to  me,  not  inappro- 
priate to  my  subject. 

At  the  close  of  the  year  1784  the  American  army,  under  Gen.  Greene, 
moved  into  the  lower  country,  to  protect  their  provisions  for  the  winter, 
acting  wholly  on  the  defensive.  The  British  troops,  at  the  same  time, 
retreated  either  within  their  fortifications  in  Charleston,  or  its  vicinity. 
Lord  Cornwallis  had  an  encampment  at  Silk  Hope,  in  St.  Thomas'  Par- 
ish, for  some  time,  whilst  Gen.  Marion,  with  his  gallant  brigade,  kept 
hovering  around,  watching  the  movements  of  the  enemy  from  the 
neighboring  swamps. 

As  both  armies  lay  encamped,  comparatively  inactive,  the  incursions 
of  the  British  soldiery,  upon  the  adjoining  plantations,  were  productive 
of  great  distress  and  annoyance.  Of  those  who  were  well  disposed  to 
the  American  cause,  there  were  few  who  had  not  their  houses  and  plan- 
tations repeatedly  visited  and  rifled.  The  will  of  the  strongest  was  the 
only  law  recognized.  Listigated  by  the  love  of  plunder,  the  most  wan- 
ton dejn'edarions  were  committed.  Delicate  females  were  frequently 
obliged,  at  the  dead  of  night,  to  abandon  their  homes,  and  fly  to  the 
■woods  and  swamps  to  escape  insult.     These  outrages,  however,  were  not 


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altogether  confined  to  the  British  troops  ;  our  own  people,  of  bad  char, 
acter,  emerged  from  their  hiding  places  in  the  swamps,  and  appropriated 
to  their  own  use  whatever  came  in  their  way.  This  state  of  things  more 
or  less  continued  until  Governor  Rutledge  returned  to  the  South,  and  by 
his  influence  and  abilities  restored  order  and  security  of  property. 

Within  two  iniles  of  the  spot  on  which  Lord  Cornwallis  pitched  his 
camp  at  Silk  Hope,  stands,  or  it  ought  rather  to  be  said,  stood,  at  that 
time,  the  ancestral  residence  of  the  Harleston  family.  It  was  then  a 
noble  building,  the  abode  of  Major  Isaac  Childs  Harlestou,  a  gentleman 
of  fortune,  surrounded  "  by  all  the  means,  and  appliances  to  boot,"  of  a 
well  stocked  and  productive  estate.  What  a  melancholy  contrast  it  ex- 
hibits now  to  its  former  condition.  It  has  unhappily  undergone  the  fate 
of  all  sublunary  things.  Solitude  its  only  portion  ;  the  house  roofless, 
and  crumbling  into  dust ;  like  Ophelia's  violets,  "  its  hopes  seemed  all  to 
wither  when  the  old  folks  died."  All  is  hushed  about  it ;  nothing  dis- 
turbes  the  silence  of  the  scene,  save  occasionally  the  song  of  the  poor 
Whip-poor-will,  or  a  wild  deer  started  from  his  form,  stirring  the  boughs 
with  its  branching  antlers;  the  stillness  as  serene  and  unbroken  as  at 
that  hour  when,  as  the  ancients  used  so  poetically  to  say,  Pan  sleeps, 
and  all  nature  holds  her  breath  so  as  not  to  disturb  him  ! 

In  contemplating  the  rude  wilderness  through  which  the  visiter  lias 
now  to  pass  in  his  approach  to  the  old  niansion  from  the  high  road, 
thick  as  the  thickets  of  Boboli,  and  woody  as  the  woods  of  Cascini,  de- 
scending into  a  deep  and  thickly  wooded  dell,  at  the  bottoni  of  which 
runs  a  bold  stream,  frequently  impassable  from  its  swollen  waters,  it  is  no 
wonder  that  Gen.  Marion,  though  outnumbered  by  the  enemy,  felt  secure 
in  such  a  neighborhood.  Like  the  fastnesses  of  Cominius,  in  wdiich, 
■when  the  Romans  were  at  war  with  the  Tuscans,  a  party  of  the  latter, 
after  a  well  fought  battle,  had  set  the  former  at  defiance  by  retreatino- 
into  its  forests,  "these  woods,  and  wilds,  and  melancholy  glooms"  could 
not  fail,  in  like  manner,  to  aftbrd  a  safe  retreat  to  a  discomfited  battalion 
in  the  hour  of  its  utmost  need  ! 

To  this  spot  the  ladies  of  the  Harleston  family  retired,  during  the 
troubles  of  the  Revolution,  supposing,  from  the  solitariness  of  its  situa- 
tion that  there,  at  least,  they  would  escape  many  of  the  evils  and  incon- 
veniences of  the  war. 

It  being  well  known  that  Major  Harleston  had  been  extensively  en. 
gaged  in  breeding  blood  stock,  and  kept  at  this  place  his  finest  horses, 
the  celebrated  Flimnap  among  the  number,  a  very  tempting  bait  Avas 
thus  offered  to  the  British  cavalry  in  the  vicinity,  commanded  by  Col. 
Tarleton.     Repeated  efforts  were  made  to  get  possession  of  this  horse, 


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but  unsuccessfully,  the  negroes  remaining  faithful  to  their  charge.  The 
horses  were  led  out,  on  the  approach  of  the  enemy,  and  concealed  in  the 
swamps.  One  n:iorning  a  detachment  from  the  British  camp  seized  one 
of  the  stable  boys,  and  tried,  by  every  possible  artifice,  and  promises  of 
rich  rewards,  to  make  him  point  out  the  spot  where  the  horses  were  con- 
cealed, particularly  Flimnap,  but  nothing  could  extort  the  secret  from 
him.  At  lengtli  they  threatened  to  hang  him,  and  did  actually  suspend 
him  from  the  limb  of  a  tree  before  the  house.  They  then  retired,  leav- 
ing him  for  dead.  As  soon  as  they  were  gone  one  of  the  servants  about 
the  house  ran  out  and  cut  him  down.  Life  was  found  not  to  be  extinct, 
and  he  was,  after  assiduous  care  and  attention,  resuscitated. 

As  soon  as  it  was  considered  safe  to  venture  through  the  country,  a 
trusty  groom  belonging  to  Major  Harleston,  removed  Flimnap  into 
North  Carolina,  where  he  continued  until  South  Carolina  got  rid  of  her 
invaders. 

Some  time  subsequent  to  the  above  occurrence,  another  search  was 
made  for  the  horses  by  a  detachment  of  British  troops.  The  party, 
however,  was,  on  this  occasion,  defeated  by  the  timely  appearance  of  an 
American  force.  After  a  skirmish,  in  which  Major  Harleston  himself, 
the  owner  of  the  horses,  then  in  the  continental  army,  under  (Jeneral 
Greene,  was  engaged,  the  British  soldiery  retreated.  On  reporting  at 
their  head  quarters  the  unsuccessful  issue  of  the  day,  a  Col.  Campbell, 
who,  for  his  furious,  violent  conduct,  was  nicknamed  "  Crazy  Campbell," 
vowed  immediate  vengeance,  and  that  he  would  kill,  burn,  and  destroy 
every  thing  on  the  place.  The  negroes  gave  the  alarm  that  Crazy 
Campbell  was  coming  in  great  fury,  and  vowing  vengeance.  The  ladies 
were  in  the  greatest  alarm.  Panic  seized  the  negroes,  and  they  scat- 
tered in  every  direction. 

Now  it  liad  fortunately  happened,  previously  to  the  ladies  of  the  fam- 
ily retiring  into  the  country,  that  one  of  them,  at  the  house  of  a  tory 
relative  in  Charleston,  who  was  in  the  constant  habit  of  entertaining  the 
British  officers,  by  balls  and  dinners,  had  met,  among  others,  this  very 
officer.  Col.  Campbell,  and  he  had  manifested,  on  many  occasions,  a 
marked  interest  in  her.  She  immediately  bethought  her  of  this  ac- 
quaintance, and  resolved  to  turn  it  to  the  best  possible  account.  As 
Col.  Campbell  rode  up  the  avenue,  she  went  out  to  meet  him.  The  mo- 
ment that  lie  saw  her  his  purpose  seemed  changed ;  his  countenance  as- 
sumed a  smile,  he  waved  his  troops  back,  sprang  from  his  horse,  forbade 
his  soldiers  doing  any  injury,  walked  into  the  house,  made  a  long  and  a 
pleasant  visit,  and  finally  took  leave  of  the  family  in  the  kindest  and 
most  friendly  manner. 


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I  have  recorded  one  instance,  already,  of  the  fidelity,  even  unto  death, 
of  a  groom  intrusted  with  tlie  protection  of  liis  master's  horses ;  it  is  in 
my  power  to  furnish  many  others.  Mr.  John  Iluger,  who  owned  the 
Hagan,  in  St.  Thomas'  Parish,  had  a  very  faitliful  servant,  byihe  name 
of  Mino-o,  to  whom  he  intrusted  all  liis  property  during  the  war.  By 
the  will  of  Mr,  Hiiger,  Mingo  received  his  freedom,  with  that  of  his  wife, 
left  to  him  cmphaticall}'  as  an  handmaid.  The  benevolence  of  his  mas- 
ter ended  not  there.  He  bequeathed  him,  out  of  his  estate,  ten  guineas 
a  year,  for  himself,  and  three  guineas  for  his  wife.  Mingo,  after  his  mas- 
ter's death,  remained  upon  the  Hagan  plantation,  keeping  his  horse, 
drawing  his  rations,  blankets  and  provisions,  equally  with  the  other  ne- 
groes, to  the  last  day  of  Ids  life.  Mingo  must  have  been  a  remarkably 
faithful  character,  and  if  ever  a  master  had  a  right  to  calculate  upon  the 
fidelity  of  his  slave,  that  master  was  Mr.  Huger.  In  a  very  interesting 
record  ke})t  by  Mr.  Huger,  for  many  years,  of  the  business  of  his  es- 
tates— still  in  possession  of  his  descendants — he  continually  speaks  of  his 
r\evvoQS  as  a  part  of  his  fatnily,  and  manifests,  in  a  thousand  indescri- 
bable ways,  the  parental  solicitude  he  must  have  extended  to  all  his 
people. 

Notwithstanding,  however,  the  sleepless  vigilance  of  Mingo,  Quarter 
Master  Jack,  who  had  his  head  quarters  at  Brabant,  was  in  the  constant 
habit  of  levying  contributions  upon  the  wealthy  neighboihood  in  which 
he  found  himself  quartered.  Of  course  "the  Hagan,"  within  a  few 
miles,  did  not  escape  spoliation.  On  one  occasion  two  Highland  sol- 
diers removed  a  fine  Brutus  mare  ;  whilst  on  another  occasion,  "  at  one 
fell  swoop,"  a  pai'ty  from  the  same  encampment  carried  oft',  beside  many 
othei'  articles  ol  value,  twelve  valuable  blood  mares,  five  fillies,  and  two 
colts. 

A  slave  of  Mr.  Daniel  Ravenel,  by  the  name  of  Tommy,  must  not  en- 
tirely be  passed  over.  He  is  certainly  entitled  to  a  brief  notice,  as  well 
as  Mingo. 

At  Wantoot,  the  seat  of  Mr.  Ravene],  the  place  where  tlie  British  army 
encamped  and  remained  for  six  weeks  after  the  battle  of  Eutaw  Springs, 
and  on  which  Mr.  Ravenel  had  an  extensive  breeding  establishment, 
Tommy  proved  so  remarkable  for  his  fidelity,  that  his  master  did  not 
hesitate  to  give  him,  during  the  continuance  of  the  war,  the  sole  control 
and  charge  of  all  his  horses,  among  others  his  famous  mare  "  Lucy,"  out 
of  Rose  by  imported  Frier. 

There  is  an  interesting  anecdote  preserved  in  reference  to  this  mare. 

During  the  war  it  was,  of  course,  of  the  highest  importance  tliat  the 
oflBcers  and  men  of  the  Revolutionary  Army  sliould  be  mounted  on  as 


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good  horses  as  the  country  could  supply.  Many  gentlemen  possessing 
fine  horses  willingly  lent  them  to  their  friends.     Mr.  Ravenel's  Lucy  got 

into  the  hands  of  Col. ,  who  never  rode  her  himself,  but  mounted 

his  servant  on  this,  the  finest  horse  in  his  command.  Mr.  Ravenel  was 
detained  at  home  by  unavoidable  circumstances  when  his  favorite  mare 
went  out  of  his  stable,  but  soon  after,  mounted  on  a  common  plantation 
tackey,  but  properly  armed  and  accoutred  for  service,  he  presented  him- 
self at  the  head  quarters  of  Col. . 

"Sir,"  said  he,  "I  have  come  to  serve  ray  country,  but  as  it  is  indis- 
pensable I  should  be  well  mounted,  I  desire  you  to  let  me  have  the  use 
of  one  of  my  own  horses."     He  named  Lucy. 

To  his  great  surprise  and  mortification  Col. declineil.  alleging, 

as  an  excuse,  that  he  had  already  appropriated  and  could  not  spare  her. 

"Then,"  said  Mr.  Ravenel,  "I  do  no  duty  until  you  alter  your  deter- 
mination." 

Soon  after  this  conversation  Mr.  Ravenel  was  invited  to  breakfast  with 

Gen.  Marion.     On  entering  his  tent,  he  found  Col. present.     In 

the  course  of  the  repast.  Gen.  Marion  introduced  the  subject  of  his  refu- 
sal to  do  duty.  The  circumstances  having  been  explained.  Gen.  Marion, 
drawing  a  slip  of  paper  from  his  portfolio,  promptly  wrote  an  order,  ad- 
dressed to  Col. himself,  for  the  immediate  and  unconditional  sur- 
render of  the  mare.  He  handed  the  order  to  Mr.  Ravenel.  remarking 
that,  as  no  man  had  bred  finer  horses  in  the  country,  so  no  one  deserved 
to  be  better  mounted.  "Besides,  sir,"  the  General  added,  "  who  has  the 
best  right  to  the  mare,  your  servant,  or  Mr.  R.,  who  owns  her  ?  " 

There  is  another  anecdote  of  a  mare,  celebrated  during  the  Revolu- 
tion, fi'om  which  some  of  our  present  stock  has  descended.  It  is  of  an 
English  mare,  known  in  those  days  as  the  "  Red  Doe"  She  belonged, 
dui'ing  the  war,  to  an  ofiicer  in  the  British  army,  in  Col.  Coates'  com- 
mand, it  is  believed.  An  American  soldier,  by  the  name  of  Hunter, 
having  been  taken  prisoner,  was  thieatened  with  instant  death  if  he  did 
not  give  the  British  commander  some  information  he  deemed  it  import- 
ant to  procure.  The  man,  hesitating,  was  ordered  to  be  shot,  but  the 
officer  to  whovn  this  duty  was  assigned,  not  wishing  "  to  kill  his  unpre- 
pared soul,"  gave  him  a  little  respite  for  i-eflection  and  prayer.  This  offi- 
cer was  the  owner  of  the  Red  Doe,  and  was  mounted  on  her  at. the  time. 
Hunter,  saw  but  one  chance  of  escape  left  to  him,  and  bravely  resolved  to 
avail  himself  of  it  if  possible.  He  entreated  the  ofticer  to  dismount  a 
moment,  as  he  had  something  of  importance  to  communicate.  The  offi- 
cer complied,  but  no  sooner  was  his  foot  clear  of  the  stirrup,  than  with 
one  bound  Hunter  jumped  into   the   saddle,  and  uiging  the  affrighted 


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*  horse,  dashed  into  the  woods,  and  was  out  of  sight  before  the  astonished 
soldiery  had  time  to  fire.  This  aet  of  intrepidity  happened  near  the 
Santee,  which  river  Hunter  swam  on  the  mare,  nifdiing  the  best  of  his 
wav  to  tlio  American  camp,  which  was  then  at  Wadhoo.  This  famous 
mare,  after  the  war,  got  into  the  possession  of  Col.  Thomas  Porcher,  of 
St.  John's,  Berkley. 

After  the  war  many  inquiries  were  made  about  the  "Red  Doe"  by  her 
former  owner  arvd  by  those  acquainted  with  her  good  qualities,  and  thus 
her  pedigree  and  performances,  when  on  the  Turf,  became  known. 

We  will  mention  one  other  instance  of  the  advantage  of  having  been 
well  mounted  "in  the  days  that  tried  men's  souls."  It  is  a  reminiscence 
of  one  of  Marion's  "  meriy  men  "  A^ho  escaped,  on  two  occasions,  from 
the  British,  on  a  "  good  steed,"  when  our  invaders  were  ravaging  the  en- 
tire Snow's  Island  country,  in  the  vicinity  of  the  Pee  Dee  River.  The 
animal  alluded  to  was  a  well  known  mare  in  the  neighborliood,  called 
"  Roebuck."  Her  pedigree  is  not  mentioned,  but  to  judge  from  her  tleet- 
ness  and  good  qualities,  the  presumption  is,  she  was  loell  hred,  like  her 
owner,  coming  from  a  c/ood  stock.  I  will  give  the  incidents  exactly  as  I 
find  them  on  record  in  a  public  journal : 

"  He  made  his  escape  on  his  little  mare  called  Roebuck.  A  great  ani- 
mal was  that. 

"  In  the  vicinity  of  '  Snow's  Island  '  my  grandfather  lived,  but  he  and 
my  uncles  wei'e  gone  to  the  wars,  (they  were  then  on  -'Snow's  Island.") 
My  grandmother  was  as  true  a  Whig  as  any  of  the  women  of  that  day, 
and  Captain  James,  the  surest  scout  of  Marion,  would  usually  manage  to 
get  there  on  his  return  to  the  island  from  his  night  scout,  to  get  a  warm 
breakfast,  which  he  knew  always  awaited  him.  The  Tories  and  British, 
posted  thick  in  the  neighborhood,  got  wind  of  his  movements,  and  a 
Captain  and  squad  waylaid  him  there.  Before  sunrise  the  British  Cap- 
tain had  his  horsemen  in  their  .saddles  in  the  back  yard,  unperceivable 
from  the  front,  and  the  Captain  was  in  the  house.  A  gate,  some  two 
hundred  yards  fronr  the  house,  opened  upon  an  avenue  up  to  the  yard. 
James  was  always  cautious.  Riding  up  to  the  edge  of  the  piazza,  he 
struck  his  wdiip  upon  the  floor,  as  a  signal,  when  out  walked  the  British 
Captain,  with  a  polite  invitation  to  Captain  James  to  alight.  At  the 
same  moment  a  whoop  was  heard  from  the  rear.  At  one  leap  Roebuck 
was  twenty  feet  from  the  ])iazza,  and  flying  for  the  gate,  with  the  squad 
of  liorsemen  in  close  pursuit.  But  alas  !  the  gate  was  shut,  and  one  of 
the  troopers  was  gaining  on  him.  He  reached  the  gate,  with  one  hand 
he  unloosens  the  latch,  and  with  tlie  other  his  pistol  holds  the  trooper  a 
moment  in  check ;  he  glides  through  the  gate  and  pulls  it  to  after  him, 


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and  thus  gains  a  few  jumps  the  start.  Half  a  mile  off,  runs  Muddy 
Creek,  a  miry  slough  at  that  place,  near  thirty  feet  wide.  The  race  is 
desperate;  the  trooper's  yell  rings  closer;  he  gains  the  summit  of  the 
hill,  reins  up  Roebuck,  reaches  the  edge  of  the  slough,  and  at  one  leap 
his  noble  little  animal  lands  upon  the  firm  earth  beyond  He  gallops 
leisurely  up  the  opposite  slope ;  down  come  the  troopers  en  masse  ;  in 
the  7Tiud  they  plunge,  and  not  a  horse  or  rider  can  extricate  themselves. 
James  waves  his  hat  at  the  muddy  crowd.  And  in  a  short  time  the 
merry  men  of  'Snow's  Island '  gather  around  the  General's  fire  to  bear 
James  relate  the  story  of  his  escape." 

The  second  escape  on  "Roebuck"  is  thus  related: 

"  My  grandfather  had  a  horse  called  Roebuck,  fit  for  such  exploits  as 
he  was  frequently  called  upon  to  perform.  On  one  occasion  he  was  taken 
prisoner  while  on  a  scout.  He  was  one  of  those  who  could  expect  no 
favor,  and  the  Tories  had  determined  to  hang  him  as  soon  as  tliey  had 
despatched  their  breakfast.  They  were  busy  at  their  meal,  and  he  was 
guarded  by  a  single  soldier,  who  walked  back  and  forth  near  him.  Just 
before  the  soldiers  had  finished  their  meal,  the  guard  stopped  a  moment 
at  the  end  of  his  promenade  next  the  fire.  Roebuck  was  tied  to  a  limb, 
not  more  than  thirty  feet  off.  Choosing  that  moment,  my  gi-andfather 
sprung  for  his  horse,  leaped  into  the  saddle,  and  slipped  the  bridle  olf  his 
horses  head,  and  was  gone.  Shot  after  shot  whistled  close  by,  and  he  was 
pursued  by  the  crowd ;  but  in  vain,  it  was  another  escape. " 


PART  IV. 


I  see  you  stand  like  Greyhounds  in  the  slip, 

Straining  upon  the  start.  Shakspeart. 

Who  look'd  as  tho'  the  speed  of  thought 

Were  in  his  limbs.  Byron'$  Mazeppa. 

I  did  hear 
The  galloping  of  horse.  Macbeth. 


plating    P^emomiiba, 

CALENDAR     OF     RACES 

FROM    THE    REVOLUTION 

1857. 


Ages  from  1st  of  May.  Mares,  fillies  and  geldings  allowed  3  lbs. 
Weights  carried  to  1810,  on  the  4  and  3  mile  days  ;  aged  horses  133 
lbs.;  6yrs.  old  129  lbs.;  5  yrs.  120,  4  yrs.  106  ;  3  yrs.  92 ;  2  yrs.  a  feather. 
On  the  two  mile  day — free  only  to  colts  and  fillies — 4  yrs.  112  lbs.,  3 
yrs.  98  lbs..  2  yrs.  a  feather. 


NEW  MARKET  COURSE, to 1792. 

WASHINGTON  COURSE, from 1792  to  1857. 


The  war  being  over,  and  peace  duly  declared,  n^t  only  a  new  era  for 
politics  commenced,  and  a  new  itjetbod  of  thinking  had  arisen,  but  a  new 
and  more  vigorous  impulse  was  given  to  the  sports  of  the  Turf. 

Of  the  gentlemen  of  South  Carolina,  who  went  upon  the  Turf,  after 
the  Revolution,  we  refer  with  pride  to  the  spotless  names  of  General 
Hampton,  Colonel  Alston,  Colonel  Washington,  Colonel  McPherson, 
Colonels  J.  B.  and  J.  P.  Richal-dson,  "Major  Thompson,  Mr.  Scott,  Mr. 
Burns,  Mr.  Sumter,  Mr.  Fenwick,  Mr,  Wigfall,  Mr.  McPherson,  Mr. 
William  Moultrie,  Mr.  John  B.  Irving,  Mr.  St.  Johns,  Mr.  Hughes,  Cap- 
tain Field,  Mr.  Chisoim,  Mr.  Singleton,  Mr.  Clifton,  Mr.  Bellinger,  Mr. 
Seabrook,  Mr.  Fuller,  Mr.  Jenkins,  Mr.  Rhodes,  Mr.  C.  Richardson,  Cap- 
tain Warren,  Captain  Davis,  Captain, O'Brien  Smith,  Mr.  N.  Harleston, 
Mr.  Quash,  Mr.  Lynch,  Mr.  Thornton,*Mr.  Farr,  Colonel  Ashe,  Mr.  Rose, 
Mr.  T.  Alston,  Mr.  Haig,  Mr.  Wainright,  Mr.  Clement,  Mr.  Benjamin 
Ferguson,  Mr.  J.  R.  Pringle,  Mr.  T.  H^Hutchinson,  Mr.  William  Taylor, 
Mr.  Clitherall,  Mr.  Philip  Sraitfe,  Mr.  F.  B.  Fishburne,  Mr.  C.  Sinkler 
and  Mr.  Aydelott. 

These  gentlemen,  either  descended  from  a  well-bred  racing  stock  in 
this  country,  or  educated  in  England,  very  early  in  life  imbibed  a  love 
for  the  Turf.  Possessed  of  ample  means,  they  established  extensive  studs 
of  their  own,  promoting  thereby  a  greater  love  for  racing,  "  at  home," 
among  their  immediate  associates,  and  gentry  of  the  country."  The  old 
York  Course,  and  the  New  Magket  Cpurse,  it  is  true,  had  existed  before 
their  time  in  Carolina,  and  some  advances  had  been  made  in  the  art  of 
breeding,  training  and  running-^occasionally  a  well-contested  race,  grow- 
ing out  of  the  competition  of  riW  stables — yet  comparatively  little  was 
effected  towards  giving  perpetuity  to  racing,  previously  to  these  gentle- 
men coming  into  their  respecti^-e  properties.  It  certainly  remained  for 
them  to  give  a  fresh  and  powerful  impulse  to  the  different  meetino-s 
within  their  reach,  and  to  lay  tbe  foundation  of  that  zeal  apd  success, 
in  the  improvement  of  our  breed  of  horses,  which  have  been  so  trium- 
phantly displayed  in  later  times  .in  our  State.  Some  of  these  gentlemen 
were  not  content  to  confine  theftiselves  to  the  materials  our  own  country 
afforded,  but  imported,  from  time  to  time,  "  bits  of  fancy  blood"  from 
England. 

Among  the  imported  stock  soon  after  the  Revolution,  was  Dancing 


Master,  a  bay  colt  by  Woodpecker,  out  of  Madcap,  by  Snap,  foaled  in 
1788,  and  bred  by  Lord  Derby;  and  Prince,  a  b.  h.,  bred  by  Lord 
Farnham,  foaled  in  1773,  got  by  Herod,  out  of  Helen  by  Blank. 

Justice,  foaled  in  1782,  got  by  Lord  Grosvenor's  Justif-e,  out  of  tbe 
noted  Miss  Timms;  she  a  full  sister  to  Conundrum,  Ranthos,  Pumpkin, 
Maiden,  Riddle,  Misgjf^urity — all  capital  runners.  Miss  Purity  was  the 
dam  of  the  renowned  Rockingham,  who  sold  for  2,500  guineas,  and  was 
allowed  to  be  the  best  running  horse'fn  England  :  at  six  years  old,  he 
won  17  times  out  of  18,  several  of  which  were  King's  Plates,  carrying  12 
stone.  Rockingham  and  Justice  wei'e  very  nearly  allied,  as  they  were 
both  got  by  sons  of  Herod.  The  dam  of  Justice  was  by  Squirt ;  g.  d. 
by  Mogul ;  Camilla  by  Bay  Bolton.  He  was  imported  by  Major  But- 
ler, and  covered  for  many  years  near  Askepoo  Bridge,  at  £10  sterling. 

Marplot,  an  imported  horse,  got  by  Highflyer,  his  dam  by  Omar,  out 
of  a  Godolphin  Arabian  mare,  (sister  to  Cripple,)  his  g.  g.  dam  Blossom, 
by  Crab.  He  figured  from  the  year  1785  to  1790,  with  great  eclat  on 
the  English  Turf,  and  afterwards  was  successful  in  the  island  of  Jamaica, 
West  Indies.  He  was  thence  imjjbrted  into  South  Carolina,  and  stood 
to  mares  for  many  seasons.  He  ^s  owned  at  one  time  by  Mr.  Laurens, 
of  Mepkin,  St.  John's  Parish,  Bei-ilfley.  He  was  sold  by  Mr.  Laurens  to 
a  man  by  the  name  of  Brightmaft,  a  sporting  blacksmith  in  the  city  of 
Charleston,  who  took  him  to  Georgia,  'vfhere  he  died. 

Matchem,  a  bay  horse  by  Matchem,  o^it  of  Lady,  by  Sir  Charles  Tur- 
ner's Sweepstakes,  foa^d  in  1773,  bred  Jpiy  Lord  Grosvenor,  and  import- 
ed into  South  Carolina  by  Mr.  Gibbs.  Bajazet  and  Gimcrack  covered  at 
the  Hagan  plantation  in  St.  Thomas  Parish,  season  of  1800.  The  for- 
mer, Bajazet,  considered  the^est-four  year  old  of  his  year,  was  the  sire 
of  many  fine  horses — Sjnong  the  n^lmber  was  Godfinder,  the  property  of 
the  gallant  Mayham  of  Horry's  ^avajny,  .•ittached  to  Marion's  Legion. 
He  was  foaled  31st  March,  1784, -by  B|uazet,  his  dam  by  Col.  Edward 
Lloyd's  Old  Traveller,  his  g.  dam  a"  bay^are,  imported  by  Col.  Lloyd. 

Star,  a  dark  bay  horse,  eif  capital  m-f^  and  size,  foaled  in  1784,  got 
by  Highflyer,  dam  by  Snap  ;  g.  dam  Riddle,  by  Matchem.  He  was  bred 
by  Richard  Taylor,  Esq.,  and  ran  N^ith  considerable  credit  for  inany  years 
in  England.  Star  did  not  answer^publi(<*  expectation  as  a  foal-getter  in 
South  Carolina.  He  died  inPendlieton  District,  in  1811.  Imported  by 
Gen.  John  McPherson,  wh^^'also  importe'd  the  following  young  stock  at 
the  same  time :  .•        *' 

Firebrand,  a  chesnut  colt, -foaled' in  1802,  by  Buzzard,  out  of  Fanny, 
own  sister  to  King  Fergus,  bi^d  by  the  Duke  of  Grafton.  Died  on  the 
passage  out  to  this  countiy,  or  soon  after  landing. 


Cinderella,  a  br.  f.,  foaled  in  1801,  bred  by  Mr.  Edward  Harris,  got  by 
Sir  Peter,  her  dam  by  Mercury. 

Sir  Peter  Teazle,  a  roan  colt,  foaled  in  1802,  own  brother  to  Cinde- 
rella, above.  This  colt  was  trained,  but  never  ran.  He  was  purchased 
by  Dr.  Fassoux,  stood  in  St.  John's  Parish,  Berkley,  and  died  in  the  Dis- 
trict of  Chester. 

Hyppona,  a  large  bay  filly,  foaled  in  1802,  bred  by  the  Earl  of  Derby, 
got  by  Sir  Peter,  dam  by  Woodpecker, 

Psyche,  a  grey  filly,  low  but  strong,  foaled  in  1802,  bred  by  the  Earl 
of  Derby,  got  by  Sir  Peter,  out  of  Bab,  by  Bordeaux.  This  filly  went 
into  the  stud  stable  of  Mr.  Singleton. 

Isabella,  a  dark  brov,n  filly,  with  tan  muzzle  and  flanks,  foaled  in  1802, 
bred  by  the  Earl  of  "(^rniont,  by  Trumpeter,  out  of  Demirep,  by  High- 
flyer.    She  was  sold  t6*  O'Brien  Smith,  Esq. 

Creeping  Kate,  a  Sganish  mare,  was  also  imported  by  Gen.  McPher- 
son,  soon  after  the  Revolution. 

Sterling,  a  bay  stallion,  foaled  in  1791,  bred  by  Mr.  Thomas  Sterling — 
imported  intq^^irginiaj/frora  London,  by  John  Hoomes,  Esq.  He  was 
reputed  among  the  best^acers  that  ever  appeared  in  England.  He  was 
got  by  Volunteer,  (one  of  the  best  sons  of  Eclipse,)  his  dam  Harriet,  by 
Highflyer.  Sterling  waS  brought  to  Carolina  in  1800,  and  stood  to 
mares  at  Gen.  McPherson'^  -plantatiou  at  Stoney  Creek,  at  $50  the  sea- 
son. 

Commp?Tt',  a  beaufiful  bay  horse,  bred  by  Gen.  McPherson,  foaled  18th 
March,  '1790.  He  was  g#'t  by  Cephalus,  who  was  by  old  Frier.  Com- 
merce's dam  was  got  by  thre  imported  horse  Sweeper.  Commerce  stood 
at  the  plantation  of  John  Singleton,  Esq.,  on  the  High  Hills  of  Santee, 
at  £5  sterling,  season  jof  1801. 

The  following  inforftaation  respecting  some  of  the  most  distinguished 
blood  horses  in  South  Carolina  from  1779  to  1808,  may  be  relied  upon 
as  correct.  It  is  extracted  from  the  stud-book  of  the  late  Col.  Wm. 
Alston  of  Waccamaw^>.  The  public  is  indebted  for  the  information  to 
Col.  Ferguson  of  this  St-^te,  who,  with  a  view  of  preserving  the  pedigree 
of  tlie  blood  horses  in  •'South  Carolina,  of  "  by-gone  days,"  applied  to 
all  the  gentlemen  whose  families  had  formerly  owned  race  and  other 
fine  horses.  Having  obtained  the  stud-book  of  Col.  Alston,  Col.  Fergu- 
son, with  characteristic  accuracy  and  zeal,  arranged  it,  and,  as  will  be 
seen,  has  succeeded  in  perfecting  a  valuable  condensation  of  the  whole 
subject. 

Brilliant  Mare,  bred  by  Mr.  Edward  Fenwick,  foaled  in  May,  1779, 
got  by  the  imported  horse  Matchem  :  her  dam  (imported  by  Mr.  Fen- 


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wick,  sen.)  by  Brilliant ;  grand  dam  by  Tartar,  out  of  a  daughter  of 
Lord  Halifax's  Bushy  Molly,  which  daughter  was  got  by  a  son  of  the 
Devonshire  Flying  Childers ;  g.  g.  dam  by  the  chesnut  Litton  Arabian ; 
g.  g.  g.  dam  by  King  William's  "White  Barb,  called  Chilaby  ;  g.  g.  g.  g. 
dam  by  the  Byerly  Turk,  out  of  Sir  William  Ramsden's  ch.  Farmer 
mare. 

1789 :  b.  f.  Symmetry^  by  Mr.  Gibbes'  Flimnap,  sold  to  Mr.  N. 
Harleston. 

1'791  :  ch   f.  Atalanta,  by  old  Slouch. 

1*793  :  ch.  c.  Gambado,  by  Florizel,  gelded,  and  sold  to  Mr.  D.  Flud. 

1795  :  ch.  c.  Highfiyer,  by  Marplot,  sold  to  Capt.  Hails. 

1797  :  b.  c.  Brilliant,  by  Marplot,  given  to  Mr.  Joseph  Alston. 
[NoTK. — The  Brilliant  mare  was  sold  to  Gen,  McPherson.     I  do  not 

know  how  many  foals  she  afterwards  had  ;  but  I  know  she  produced  a 
b.  f  called  Milksop,  by  the  imported  horse  Justice,  and  died  shortly 
after.] 

Nancy  Dawson : 

1790  :  b.  c.  Meteor,  by  Comet,  sold  to  Mr.  Benjamin  Alston,  sen. 
1791 :  gr.  f.  Jilt,  by  Ajax,  sold  to  Mr.  Paul'Michau. 

1792 :  gr.  i.  Ludee,  by  old  Slouch,  given  to^Sir  John  Nisbitt,  1798. 

1798  :  g.  f.  Jane  Grey,  by  old  Slouch,  sold."to  Mr.  Robert  Withers. 
1795  :  ch.  f.  Iris,  by  Marplot. 

1797  :  b.  c.  by  Marplot,  died  in  1801. 

1799  :  b.  f.  by  Justice,  sold  to  Mr.  Jos.  Lesesne,  1803. 

1800  :  a  mule.  ^* 

[Note. — I  think  the  produce  by  Justice  ifi  1799,  ran  under  the  name 
of  Eliza,  as  the  property  of  Mr.  Laborde  aud  then  of  Mr.  Philip  Smith.] 

Tartar  Mare,  bred  by  Mr.  Edward  Fenwick,  foaled  in  1780,  got  by 
old  Flimnap,  her  dam  by  old  Pharaoh,  her  grand*'dam  (imported  by  Mr. 
Fenwick,  senior),  got  by  Tartar,  her  dam  by  Young  Sweepstakes, 
grand  dam  by  Mogul,  g.  g.  dam  by  Bay  Bolton,  g.  g.  g.  dam  by  Pulleyn's 
ch.  Arabian,  g.  g.  g.  g.  dam  by  Rockwood,  g.  g.  g.  g.  g.  dam  by  Bustler. 

1791  :  ch.  c.  Cade,  by  Ajax,  sold  to  Mr.  Find. 

1792  :  ch.  c.  Cassius,  by  old  Slouch,  broke  his  neck  in  breaking. 
1794  :  b.  f.  Hebe,  by  Florizel,  given  to  Dandy  Griggs. 

Atalanta,  bred  by  Mr.  William  Alston,  foaled  in  1791,  got  by  old 
Slouch,  out  of  the  brilliant  mare. 

1798  :  ch.  c.  by  Marplot,  sold  to  Mr.  O'Brien  Smith. 

1801  :  ch.  f.  by  Marplot,  sold  to  Mr.  Screven. 

1803  :  ch.  c.  by  Spread  Eagle. 

1804  :  a  mule. 


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Kitty  Fisher^  purchased  in  1789,  by  Mr.  William  Alston,  from  Mr. 
John  Thornton,  got  by  Oscar,  her  dam  by  the  imported  horse  Vampire, 
out  of  old  Kitty  Fisher,  imported  by  Col.  Carter  Braxton,  died  in  Sep- 
tember, 1798. 

1792  :  gr.  f.  Desdemona,  by  Comet,  sold  to  Mr.  Ransom  Davis. 

1794  :  br.  c.  Wonder,  by  old  Flimnap,  sold  to  Gen.  Hampton. 

1795  :  ch.  f.  by  Marplot,  sold  to  Mr.  Alexander  Nesbitt. 

Hope,  bred  by  Mr.  Charles  Thornton,  foaled  April  24,  1788,  got  by 
the  imported  horse  Shark,  her  dam  by  the  imported  horse  Fearnaught, 
grand  dam  by  the  imported  horse  Monkey,  g.  g.  dam  by  the  imported 
horse  Dancing  Master,  out  of  an  imported  Spanish  mare,  called  Creep- 
ing Kate ;  sold  to  Gen.  McPherson. 

1793  :  r.  c.  Pilot,  by  old  Flimnap,  sold  to  Mr.  Alex.  Nesbitt. 

1796  :  b.  c.  by  Marplot. 

1798  :  b.  f.  by  Marplot,  exchanged  with  Gen.  McPherson.  ' 

Circs,  bred  by  Mr.  Beckwith  Butler,  foaled  May  26,  1784,  got  by 
Ariel,  out  of  Lady  Northumberland,  who  was  imported  by  the  late  Hon. 
John  Tayloe,  of  Mount  Airy,  and  was  got  by  Northumberland,  her  dam 
by  Shakspeare,  grand  dam  by  Regulus,  g.  g.dam  by  Parker's  Snip,  g.  g.  ^. 
dam  by  old  Partner,  g.  g.  g.  g.  dam  by  Bloody  Buttocks,  g.  g.  g.  g.  g.  dam 
by  Greyhound,  g.  g.  g.  g.g.  g.  dam  by  Makeless,  g,  g.  g.  g.  g.  g.  g.  dam  by 
Place's  White  Turk,  g.  g.  g.  g.  g.  g.  g.  g.  dam  by  Dodsworth,  out  of  a 
Layton  Barb  mare. 

1794  :  br.  c.  Jupiter,  by  Florizel,  sold  to  Francis  Tyre. 
1796  :  gr.  c.  by  old  Slouch,  given  to  Mr.  Ransom  Davis. 
Betsey  Baker  : 

1795  :  b.  f.  Stella,  by  Marplot,  sold  to  Mr.  R.  P.  Saunders. 

1796  :  ch.  f.  by  old  Slouch,  sold  to  Mr.  Ransom  Davis. 
]  797  :  b.  f.  by  Marplot,  died  in  1801. 

The  bay  mare,  by  Florizel,  out  of  the  Tartar  mare.  Query :  is  not 
this  Hebe,  who  was  given  to  Dandy  Griggs  ] 

1799  :  ch.  f.  by  Justice,  died  in  1803. 
1801 :  ch.  f.  by  Marplot. 

/m,  bred  by  Mr.  William  Alston,  foaled  in  1795;  got  by  Marplot 
out  of  Nancy  Dawson. 

1801  :  br.  c.  by  Mai-j^lot,  died  young. 
1803  :  b.  c.  by  Spread  Eagle,  sold  to  Mr.  Joseph  Lesesne. 
1805  :  b.  c.  by  Bedford,  gelded  and  sold  to  Mr.  Russell. 
1807  :  ch.  f.  by  Bedford,  sold  to  Mr.  O'Brien  Smith. 
1809  :  ch.  c.  by  Star. 


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Marplot  Mare,  died  March  28,  1802,  bre'S  by  William  Alston,  foaled 
in  1797,  got  by  Marplot  out  of  Betsy  Baker. 

1802:  b.  c.  by  Marplot. 

Miss  Ingleshy,  bred  by ,  got  by ,  her  dam   by  old  Flimnap. 

1802  :  b.  c.  by  Brilliant,  by  Marplot,  out  of  the  Brilliant  mare. 

Kitty  Bull,  purchased  from  Gen.  Hampton,  got  by  John  Bull,  out  of 
Lord  Grosvenor's  Isabella,  by  Eclipse :  she  was  imported. 

1802  :  b.  c.  by  Stirling,  exchanged  with  Gen.  Hampton. 

Grey,  mare,  got  by  Slouch,  her  dam  by  the  imported  horse  Medley, 
out  of  a  full  bred  mare. 

[N.B. — The  dam  of  the  above  grey  mare  was  brought  into  the  State 
by  W.  Aylette  Lee,  Esq.,  who  sold  her  to  Dr.  L-vine,  and  gave  the 
above  pedigree.] 

1802  :  g.  c.  by  Jupiter,  (by  Gimcrack.) 

Anvilina,  bred  by  Mr.  O'Kelly,  foaled  in  1796,  got  by  Anvil,  out  of 
Augusta,  imported  by  John  Tayloe,  in  1799,  into  Norfolk,  Virginia,  in 
the  Industry. 

1803  :  ch.  f.  Lottery,  by  Bedford,  sold  to  Mr.  Singleton. 
1805  :  ch.  f.  Charlotte,  by  Gallatin,  sold  to  Mr.  Richardson. 
180G  :  b.  c.  Rossicuician,  by  Dragon,  sold  to  Mr.  Richardson. 
Peggy,  bred  by  the  Earl  of  Claremont,  foaled  in  1783,  got  by  Trump- 

ator,   out   of  Peggy,  sister  to  Postmaster,     Died  in    1805,  in  foal  to 
Dragon. 

1803  :  ch.  f.  Peggy,  by  Bedford,  died  in  possession  of  Col.  Hampton. 
1805  :  ch.  f.  by  Gallatin,  given  to  Mr.  Joseph  Alston. 

(Copy.)  London,  June  11,  1787. 

A  chesnut  filly,  bred  by  Lord  Grosvenor,  two  years  old,  got  by  Mam- 
brino,  out  of  a  sister  to  Naylor's  Sally. 

(Signed)  Richard  Tattersall. 

1800  :  ch.  c.  Gallatin,  by  Bedford. 

1804  :  b.  f.  by  Bedford,  sold  to  Gen.  Hampton. 

1805  :  ch.  f.  by  Bedford,  sold  to  Mr.  Singleton. 

Stirling  Mare,  bred  by ,  foaled  in  ,  got  by  Stirling,  out  of 

the  imported  Mambrino  mare, 
1808:  b.  c.  by  Bedford. 

Having  furnished  an  account,  as  above,  of  the  pedigrees  of  the  horses 
belonging  to  the  most  distinguished  clafs  of  their  day,  it  is  proper  now 
to  enumerate  some  of  their  individual  performances.     We  will  com- 


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mence  with  the  proceedings  at  the  New  Market  Course  at  Charleston, 
S.  C,  season  of  1*786  ;  and  here  it  may  be  remarked,  that  if  ever  there 
was  "a  golden  age  of  racing"  in  South  Carolina,  or  rather,  if  ever 
there  was  a  period  destined  to  be  the  commencement  of  a  new  era  in 
the  annals  of  racing  in  this  State,  that  period  is  the  one  to  which  we 
are  now  referring. 

Whether  we  consider  the  elevated  character  of  the  gentlemen  of  the 
Turf,  the  attraction  that  the  races  possessed  at  that  time,  and  for  many 
subsequent  years,  "  for,  all  sorts  and  conditions  of  men  " — youth  antici- 
pating its  delights  for  weeks  beforehand — the  sternness  of  age  relaxing 
by  their  approach — lovers  becoming  more  ardent,  and  young  damsels 
setting  their  (;aps  with  greater  taste  and  dexterity — the  qualiti/  of  the 
company  in  attendance — the  splendid  equipages — the  liveried  outriders 
that  were  to  be  seen  daily  on  the  course — the  gentlemen  attending  the 
races  in  fashionably  London  made  clothes — buckskin  breeches  and  top 
boots — the  universal  interest  pervading  all  classes,  from  the  judge  upon 
the  bench  to  the  little  schoolboy  with  his  satchel  on  his  back — the  kind 
greetings  of  the  town  and  country — the  happy  meetings  of  old  friends 
whose  residences  were  at  a  distance,  atfording  occasions  of  happy  inter- 
course and  festivity — the  marked  absence  of  all  care^  except  the  care  of 
the  horses — the  total  disregard  of  the  value  of  time,  except  by  the  com- 
petitors in  the  races,  who  did  their  best  to  save  and  economise  it — 
everything  combined  to  render  race-week  in  Charleston  emphatically 
the  carnival  of  the  State,  when  it  was  unpopular,  if  not  impossible,  to 
be  out  of  spirits,  and  not  to  mingle  with  the  gay  throng. 

The  best  idea  we  can  give  of  the  moral  influence  of  race-week  (as 
exerted  formerly),  is  to  state  that  the  courts  of  justice  used  daily  to 
adjourn,  and  all  the  schools  were  regularly  let  oict,  as  the  hour  for  start- 
ing the  horses  drew  near ;  with  one  consent  the  stores  in  Broad  and 
King  streets  were  closed — all  business  being  suspended  on  the  joyous 
occasion,  the  feelings  of  the  good  people  partaking  of  the  rapidity  of 
the  races  themselves — in  fact,  it  was  no  uncommon  sight  to  see  the 
most  venerable  and  distinguished  dignitaries  of  the  land,  clergymeyi  and 
judges,  side  by  side  on  the  course,  taking  a  deep  interest  in  the  animated 
and  animating  scene  around  them  ! 

With  such  a  stimulus  to  propriety  and  the  preservation  of  good 
morals,  no  wonder  that  order,  and  sobriety,  and  good  fellovrship,  pre- 
vailed as  abundantly  as  they  did  in  those  days. 

We  must  not  omit  to  notice,  that  in  the  early  days  of  racing  in 
South  Carolina,  the  gentlemen  of  the  Turf,  like  the  ancient  nobles 
Hiero  and  others,  never  ran  their  horses  for  the  pecuniary  value  of  the 


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prize  to  be  won,  but  solely  for  the  honor  that  a  horse  of  their  own  breed- 
ing and  training  should  distinguish  himself.  Mr.  Daniel  Ravenel,  and 
many  others  of  the  high-minded  turfmen  of  those  days,  expressed  great 
disapprobation  at  any  departure  from  the  good  old  customs  of  their 
fathers,  and  did  all  in  their  power  to  prevent  a  change,  when  it  was 
proposed.  The  prize  used  to  be,  not  a  purse  of  gold  or  silver,  but  a 
■piece  of  plate.  Several  of  these  tokens  of  success  are  in  the  possession 
of  the  descendants  of  those  who  formerly,  owned  race  horses  in  the 
State. 

Such  were  the  races  in  South  Carolina !  Let  us  hope,  then,  that  we 
of  the  present  generation  will  never  feel  less  attachment  than  our  fathers 
did,  to  the  sports  of  the  Turf ;  and  that,  whatever  other  changes  may 
occur  in  our  State,  no  change  will  ever  take  place  in  the  celebrity  of 
our  horses ;  that  the  animating  spirit  of  the  chase  will,  in  all  time  to 
come,  continue  to  call  our  youth  to  the  woods,  and  the  rational  amuse- 
ment of  the  course,  our  sportsmen  to  the  Turf  I 

After  the  Revolution,  racing  was  revived  in  South  Carolina  in  1Y86. 
During  that  and  the  following  season,  however,  only  a  few  gentlemen 
trained  their  own  horses  and  those  of  their  friends  that  were  thought 
to  give  any  great  promise.  Hence  the  number  of  horses  trained  was 
few,  and  not  many  races  were  run  in  public.  A  grey  horse,  called 
Ranger^  the  property  of  Col.  Washington,  seems  to  have  been  the  cock 
of  the  walk  in  the  State,  winning  all  the' principal  events,  until  beaten 
by  the  celebrated  Comet  in  1*788,  carrying  140  pounds,  4  mile  heats, 
over  the  Newmarket  Course  (the  exact  location  of  which  has  already 
been  described)  near  Charleston.  It  must  have  been  a  fine  race,  and  a 
very  sporting  affair,  according  to  tradition. 

Comet  was  a  black  horse  by  Mark  Anthony,  bred  by  Mr.  Nash,  in 
North  Carolina.  He  was  a  wonderfully  great  little  horse,  very  small, 
only  fourteen  hands  and  a  half  high — some  accounts  say  only  fourteen 
hands.  He  was  a  black,  with  blaze  face,  and  had  eyes,  in  which  the 
iris  was  of  a  very  light  grey  color,  and  all  his  legs  were  white  to  the 
knees — he  ran  with  his  hind  legs  very  much  apart,  but  he  could  run  all 
day.  He  was  a  winner  from  Petersburg  to  Charleston.  He  was  first 
brought  to  South  Carolina  by  Mr.  Twining.  Comet  was  sometimes 
entered  by  Col.  Alston,  and  sometimes  by  Gen.  Hampton. 

Ranger  was  a  descendant  of  an  imported  horse  by  the  same  name, 
(got  by  Martindale's  Regulus,  a  son  of  the  Godolphin  Arabian,)  im- 
ported into  Maryland  about  the  year  1767,  by  Dr.  Thomas  Hamilton, 
of  Prince  George's  county. 


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Mark  Anthony,  the  sire  of  Comet,  was  the  rival  and  successor  of 
Janus  in  the  southern  part  of  Virginia,  and  along  the  northern  border 
of  North  Carolina.  He  was  an  American  bred  horse,  foaled  on  the 
banks  of  the  James  river,  the  property  of  Mr.  Lee.  He  was  got  by 
Partner,  out  of  a  fine  imported  mare.  Like  his  son  Comet,  he  was 
almost  black — his  two  hind  feet  white,  and  was  a  little  over  fifteen  hands 
high.  It  is  recorded  of  him  that  he  was  excellent  as  a  race-horse  in 
Virginia,  and  stood  many  years  in  that  State  and  in  North  Carolina, 
He  became,  in  his  later  days,  the  property  of  Mr.  Peter  Morgan,  of 
Halifax,  in  whose  possession  he  died,  about  1794. 

Cub,  a  beautiful  bay  horse,  by  Yorick,  out  of  a  mare  by  Silver  Legs, 
bred  in  England,  covered  at  the  plantation  of  Mr.  W.  C.  Snipes,  near  the 
Horse-shoe,  season  of  1788. 


NEW  MARKET    COURSE. 


1789. — 4  mile  heats.  Betsey  Baker,  the  property  of  Col.  Alston, 
beat  Comet.  Betsey  Baker  was  a  ch.  m.,  bred  by  Mr.  Wiley  Jones, 
of  North  Carolina.  She  was  by  old  Flimnap,  and,  like  most  of  his 
get,  was  remarkably  handsome.     She  was  small  and  delicate. 

1790. —  Wednesday,  March  2d. — 4  mile  heats. — Col.  Washington's 
ch.  m.  Rosetta,  by  Imp.  Centinel,  beat  in  two  heats  Col.  Alston's 
Betsey  Baker,  Mr.  Fen  wick's  Ciucinnatus,  and  Mr.  Scott's  Independ- 
ence. 

Thursday,  March  5d. — 3  mile  heats.  Gen.  Hampton's  Great  Mogul 
beat  Col.  Washington's  Flora,  and  Mr.  Fenwick's  Dungannon.  Dun- 
gannon  bolted  in  second  heat. 

Friday,  March  4th. — 2  mile  heats. — Col.  McPherson's  Wanton  beat 
Capt.  Hughes'  Cephalus,  Mr.  Davis'  Plenipo,  Mr.  Harleston's  Corn- 
planter,  Mr.  Quash's  Diana,  Mr.  Moultrie's  gr.  m.  Deianeira,  and  a 
mare  entered  by  Col.  Washington.  Cephalus  won  the  first  heat — 
Wanton  the  second  and  third  heats. 

Saturday,  March  6th. — Col.  Alston's  Betsey  Baker  heat  Col.  Thomp- 
son's Slouch  two  mile  heats. 

Same  day. — 3  mile  heats. —  Come  if,  entered  by  Col.  Alston,  beat  in  two 
heats  Col.  Washington's  Apollo,  and  Mr.  Scott's  Independence. 


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1*791 — March  Id. — New  Market  Course. — 4  mile  heats.  Col.  Alston's 
ch.  m.  Betsey  Baker ^  aged ,  9st.  4,  beat  in  two  heats,  after  a  fine  contest 
Col.  Washington's  ch.  m.  Rosetta,  6  years,  9st. 

March  3d. — ?>  mile  heats.  Mr.  Burns'  Cincinnatus  beat  Mr,  Sum- 
ter's Plenipo,  Col.  Thompson's  Whistle  Jacket,  Mr.  Fenwick's  Dungan- 
non,  Mr.  Wigfall's  Mercur}^,  and  Mr.  McPherson's  Wanton.  Plenipo 
took  the  first  heat,  Cincinnatus  winning  the  2d  and  3d. 

March  4th. — 2  mile  heats. — Gen.  Sumter's  Ugly  beat  Mr.  William 
Moultrie,  jr.'s,  Pantaloon,  Mr.  Fenwick's  Angeline,  Mr.John  B.  Irving's 
Battledore,  Mr.  St.  John's  Munster  Lass,  Mr.  McPherson's  Wanton,  Mr. 
Hughes'  Cephalus,  Mr.  Fuller's  Sampson,  Mr.  Washington's  Childers, 
and  Mr.  Bellinger's  ^]olus. 

I  have  said  that  Betsey  Baker  was  rather  small  and  delicate.  Like 
her  famous  competitor  Rosetta,  she  was  a  chesnut,  but  she  was  unlike 
her  in  size — Rosetta  being  nearly  sixteen  hands  high,  with  a  prodigious 
shoulder.  Betsey  Baker  and  Rosetta,  like  Shark  and  Commerce  after 
them,  were  rivals  for  several  years.  They  often  met,  running  with  alter- 
nate success,  as  will  be  seen  by  the  above  summary.  Rosetta,  after 
leaving  the  turf,  produced  a  bay  colt,  Achilles,  by  Marplot;  General 
Washington  gave  him  to  Mr.  Ancrum,  who  sold  him  to  Mr.  Nisbitt. 
He  was  large,  but  of  no  account  as  a  racer.  Betsey  Baker,  also,  had 
produce  by  Marplot ;  none  of  them  ever  distinguished  themselves. 

An  attentive  friend  writing  to  me  in  reference  to  the  contests  be- 
tween Betsey  Baker  and  Rosetta,  "remarks :  "  I  was  quite  young  when  I 
witnessed  their  races,  but  I  recollect  the  enthusiasm  which  prevailed  on 
those  occasions.  I  I'emember  meeting  Betsey  Baker  at  the  corner  of 
Friend  and  Tradd  streets,  on  her  return  to  Col.  Alston's  stables  in  King 
street,  after  having  beaten  Rosetta  in  1791 — a  great  crowd  following 
her." 

This  was  the  last  year  of  the  races  over  the  New  Market  Course.  In 
the  following  year  (1792)  the  South  Carolina  Jockey  Club  moved  to 
the  Washington  Course,  where  it  has  ever  since  continued  to  hold  its 
meetings. 

The  original  proprietors  and  owners  of  the  Washington  Race  Course 
near  Charleston,  S.  C,  were  Gen.  C.  C.  Pinckney,  Gen.  Washington, 
O'Brien  Smith,  John  Wilson,  Jas.  Ladson,  Wm.  Alston,  H.  M.  Rutledge, 
Gab'l  Manigault,  Gen.  Read,  Col.  Mitchell,  Gen.  Wade  Hampton  (three 
shares,  bought  of  A.  Johnson,  Jas.  Miller,  and  Dr.  Moultrie),  James 
Burn,  Capt.  White,  L.  Campbell,  Wm.  Moultrie,  Gen.  McPherson,  Col. 
McPherson,  Col.  Morris,  E.  Fen  wick,  Wm.  McCleod,  sold  afterwards  to 
John  Parker. 


WASHINGTON  COURSE. 


1792, —  Wednesday,  Feb.  15, — Jockey  Club  Purse. — 4  Mile  Heats. — 
Weight  for  age.—  Was  won  by  Mr.  Lynch's  Fox  Hunter,  after  a  well-con- 
tested race  of  four  heats,  beating  Mr.  Sumter's  Ugly,  who  won  the  first 
heat ;  Col.  Washington's  Rosetta,  who  won  the  second  heat ;  Captain 
Alston's  Betsey  Bater,  Mr.  Thornton's  Fair  Rosamond,  and  Mr.  Burns' 
Cincinnatus. 

Thursday,  Feb.  16. — .Jockey  Club  Purse — 3  Mile  Heats. — Was  won  by 
Mr.  T.  Alston's  Corn  Planter,  beating  in  two  heats  Mr.  Farr's  Wanton, 
Mr.  Bellinger's  ^olus,  Mr.  McPherson's  Cephalus,  Col.  Washington's 
Childers,  Mr.  Fenwick's  Boxer,  and  Mr.  Sumter's  Plenipo. 

Friday,  Feb.  11. — Jockey  Club  Purse. — 2  Mile  Heats, — Was  adjudged 
to  Mr,  Fenwick's  Boxer — five  started.    Boxer  won  the  first  heat,  beating 

Diana,  Mr.  Rose's  Coquette,  Mr, 's  Mary  Ann,  and  Mr.  Davis' 

Paul  Jones.  In  the  second  heat,  Paul  Jones  came  in  first,  and  Boxer 
second ;  but  the  rider  of  Paul  Jones  having  jostled,  was  declared  dis- 
tanced, and  the  purse  given  to  Boxer. 

The  owners  of  Paul  Jones  then  challenged  Boxer  to  run  another  heat, 
which  being  accepted,  produced  a  fine  and  close  contest,  which  termina- 
ted in  favor  of  Paul  Jones. 

Saturday,  Feb.  18. — City  Purse. — 3  Mile  Heats. — Was  won  by  Mr. 
Burn's  Cinciyinatiis,  beating  in  two  heats  Col.  Washington's  Rosetta, 
Capt.  Alston's  Betsey  Baker,  Mr.  Thornton's  Fair  Rosamond,  and  Col. 
Hampton's  Comet. 

Figure,  a  bay  horse,  by  old  Selim,  out  of  an  imported  mare,  by 
Traveller,  bred  by  J.  Galloway,  Esq.,  of  Virginia,  covered  this  season  at 
the  plantation  of  Mr.  Joseph  Morrison,  near  Saltcatcher  Bridge. 

1793. —  Wednesday,  Feb.  13. — Jockey  Club  Purse. — 4  Mile  Heats. — 
Col.  Washington's  Rosetta  beat  Mr.  Burn's  Paragon,  Mr.  Fenwick's  Pan- 
taloon, and  Col.  Ashe's  Mercury.  Pantaloon  took  the  first  heat ;  but  in 
running  for  the  second  heat,  the  riders  of  Pantaloon  and  Paragon  pulled 
up  their  horses,  through  mistake,  at  the  completion  of  the  third  mile — 
on  which,  Rosetta  sprang  ahead,  and  distanced  them.     Col,  Ashe's  Mer- 


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cury  contended  well  for  the  3d  heat,  but  Rosetta  beat  him,  and  won  the 
Race. 

Tliursday,  Feh.  14. — Jockey  Club  Purse. — 3  Mile  Heats. — Mr.  Bel- 
linger's ^olus  beat  in  two  heats  Col.  Hampton's  Ugly,  Mr.  Davis'  Paul 
Jones,  Mr.  Richardson's  Flimnap,  Mr.  T.  Alston's  Cornplanter,  Mr.  Rose's 
Coquette,  and  Mr.  J.  B.  Irving's  Poor  Jack. 

Ugly  was  bred  by  Gen.  Sumter,  but  usually  entered  by  Gen.  Hamp- 
ton. He  was  reputed  a  good  four  mile  horse.  He  was  ugly  by  nature, 
as  well  as  by  name.  On  one  occasion,  after  he  had  distinguished  him- 
self, a  gentleman  in  the  crowd  remarked,  on  looking  at  him  as  "he  halt- 
ed by,"  as  if  "  He  had  been  sent  into  this  breathing  world  before  his  time, 
scarce  half  made  up,  and  that  lamely  and  unprofitably."  "  Well — loho 
would  have  expected  S7(ch  a  performance  from  such  an  ugly  brute .'" 
Gen.  Hampton,  overhearing  the  observation,  promptly  replied,  with  his 
characteristic  humor,  "  Perhaps,  Sir,  you  do  not  know  who  trained  him!" 

Friday,  Feh.  15. — Jockey  Club  Purse. — Two  Mile  Heats. — Was  won 
by  Mr.  Fenwick's  Boxer,  beating  Mr.  Alston's  Symmetry,  Mr.  Haig's 
Florella,  Mr.  Wainwright's  Dumourier,  Mr.  Richardson's  Farmer,  Mr. 
Davis'  Slut,  Mr.  Warren's  Echaw,  and  Mr.  Thompson's  Yorick.  The 
1st  heat  was  won  by  Symmetry — the  2d  and  3d  by  Boxer. 

1*794. —  Wednesday,  I3th  Feb. — Washington  Course. — Jockey  Club 
Purse. — 4  Mile  Heats. — Col.  Washington's  Rosetta,  in  two  heats,  beat 
Capt.  Warren's  Echaw,  Mr.  Ashe's  Mercury,  Col.  Alston's  Betsey  Baker, 
Col.  Fenwick's  ^olus,  Capt.  Davis'  Paul  Jones,  and-  Mr.  Richardson's 
Farmer.     1st  heat,  8  m.,  20  sec;  2d  heat,  8  m.,  25  see. 

Thursday,  14th  Feb. — Jockey  Club  Purse. — 3  Mile  Heats. — Mr.  John 
Mcintosh's  Dictator,  bred  by  Col.  McPherson,  beat,  in  three  heats,  Col- 
Washington's  Shark,  Mr.  McPherson's  Escape,  Mr.  Burns'  Paragon,  Mr. 
Rose's  Coquette.  Shark  won  the  first  heat,  Dictator  the  second  and 
third.  First  heat,  6m.,  34  sec;  2d  heat,  5  m.,  58  sec;  third  heat,  6m.^ 
8  sec. 

Friday,  Feb.  15. — Jockey  Club  Purse. — 2  Mile  Heats. — Col.  McPher- 
son's Commerce  beat,  in  two  heats,  Capt.  Saunder's  Cornelia,  Col.  Wash- 
ington's Actaeon,  Capt.  Davis'  Picture,  Capt.  Alston's  Meteor,  Mr.  Rose's 
Flirt,  Capt.  Moultrie's  Tristam  Shandy,  Mr.  Richardson's  Farmer,  and  Mr. 
Field's  Peter  Pindar.     First  heat,  4  m.;  second  heat,  4  m.,  1  sec. 

Saturday,  Feb.  16. — City  Purse. — 3  Mile  Heats. — Was  won  by  Col. 
McPherson's  Dictator,  beating,  in  two  heats,  Mr.  Ashe's  Mercury,  Col. 
Washington's  Soldier,  Mr.  Clement's  Dorrick,  Col.  Alston's  Betsey  Ba- 
ker, Captain  Warren's  Echaw,  and  Mr.  McPherson's  Pantaloon.  Time 
of  first  heat,  6m.,  2  sec;  2d  heat,  6  m.,  1  sec. 


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On  the  Monday  preceding  the  Races  of  this  year — Feh.  11 — a  match 
for  50  barrels  of  Rice,  between  Col.  Fenwick's  Boxer,  and  Mr.  Fields' 
Peter  Pindar,  was  decided  on  the  Washington  Course,  two  mile  heats. 
Peter  Pindar  won  the  1st  heat ;  Boxer  2d  and  3d.  It  was  a  very  sport- 
ing match,  and  well-contested  in  every  heat.  Time — 4  ra.,  9  sec;  2d 
heat,  3  m.,  55  sec;  3d  heat,  4m..  4  sec. 

Some  discussion  took  place  this  year,  as  to  the  proper  weights  to  be 
carried — no  change  was  made,  however.  They  were  continued  as  be- 
fore— namely,  on  the  first  and  second  days,  4  and  3  mile  heats,  for  aged 
horses,  133  lbs.;  6  yrs.  old,  129  lbs.;  5  yrs.,  120;  4  yrs.,  106  ;  3  yrs., 
92  lbs.;  2  vrs.,  a  feather — mares,  fillies  and  geldings,  allowed  3  lbs.  On 
the  third  day,  2  mile  heats — free  only  to  colts  and  fillies — 4  yrs.  old, 
112  lbs.;  3  yrs.,  98  lbs. 

1795. —  Wednesday,  Feh.  11. — Washington  Course. — Jockey  Club 
Purse. — 4  Mile  Heats. — Col.  Washington's  Shark — 4  yrs.  old,  106  lbs. — 
beat,  in  two  heats,  Captain  Warren's  Echaw — 6  yrs.,  129  lbs. 

Thursday,  Feh.  12.— Jockey  Club  Purse. — 3  Mile  Heats. — Col.  Wash- 
ington's Rosetta  beat  Cot.  McPherson's  Dictator,  and  Col.  Alston's  Sym- 
metry, in  three  heats.  Dictator,  that  had  distinguished  himself  so  much 
the  previous  year,  won  the  1st  heat ;  Rosetta  the  2d  and  3d. 

Friday,  Feh.  13. — Jockey  Club  Purse. — 2  Mile  Heats. — Mr.  Benja- 
min Ferguson's  Commerce  beat  Mr,  Bellinger's  Justice,  in  three  heats  ; 
Justice  winning  the  first,  after  a  sharp  contest. 

Saturday,  Feh.  14. — Shark  won  a  Handicap  Purse— 3  mile  heats — 
winning  easily. 

1796. —  Wednesday,  Feh.  17th. — Jockey  Club  Purse. — 4  Mile  Heats, — 
Mr.  Fenwick's  c.  h.  Commerce,  5  yrs.  old,  beat  Mr.  Bellinger's  bl.  h. 
Matchem — commonly  called  Justice.  Matchem  won  the  1st  heat,  but 
bolted  in  the  2d. 

Thursday,  Feb.  18th. — Jockey  Club  Purse. — 3  Mile  Heats. — Capt. 
Warren's  Echaw  beat,  in  three  heats,  Col.  McPherson's  Dictator,  (who 
won  the  2d  heat,)  Capt.  McPherson's  Pickle,  Capt.  Davis'  Atalanta,  Capt. 
O'Brien  Smith's  Sportsman,  and  Maj.  Thompson's  Hiero.  Time — 1st  heat, 
6m.,  8  sec;  2d  heat,  6  m.,  7  sec;  3d,  6  m.,  28.     Track  heavy. 

Friday,  Feh.  19th. — Jocke/Club  Purse. — 2  Mile  Heats. — Capt.  Da- 
vis' Telegraph,  3  yrs.,  beat,  in  two  heats.  Captain  McPherson's  Ajax,  Col. 
McPherson's  Mentor,  and  Mr.  Harleston's  Ploughboy.  1st  heat,  4  m., 
4  sec;  2d  heat,  4  m.,  17  sec. 

Saturday,  Feh.  ^Oth. — Mr.  Fenwick's   Commerce  beat,  in  a  race  of 
three  mile  heats,  Capt.  O'Brien  Smith's  Tally-ho,  Col.  Moultrie's  Banker, 
and  Col.  McPherson's  Touch  and  Jump. 
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The  pleasure  of  the  South  Carolina  Jockey  Club  Races  was  very  much 
enhanced  this  season,  by  the  novelty  of  a  match  race  between  Sir  John 
NiSBiTT,  of  Dean  Hall,  of  the  ancient  house  of  Nisbitts,  near  Edinburg, 
but  who  vyas  at  that  time  a  resident  of  South  Carolina,  and  John  Ran- 
dolph, of  Roanoke,  in  Virginia,  each  gentleman  riding  his  own  horse. 
Mr.  Randolph  won  the  race,  after  a  close  and  exciting  struggle  ;  but  tra- 
dition says,  Sir  John  Nisbitt,  who  was  a  very  elegant  gentleman,  a  gal- 
lant gay  Lothario, 

"  Shaped  for  sportive  tricks, 
And  made  to  court  an  amorous  looking-glass," 
"  Capering  nimbly  in  a  Lady's  chamber, 
To  the  lascivious  pleasing  of  a  Lute," 

Won  the  prize  from  beauty's  eyes.  Many  of  the  enamored  fair  ones 
were  heard  to  confess,  after  the  race  was  over,  that  although  Mr.  Ran- 
dolph had  won  the  race,  Sir  John  had  won  their  hearts,  and  that  they 
much  prefen-ed  him  in  a  match,  to  his  more  successful  competitor. 

1797. — Monday,  Feb.  6. — Sweepstakes,  £1200 — 2  mile  heats. 

Gen.  Washington's  b.  h.  Shark,  6  years,  129  lbs.,  ....  1  1 
Mr.  Alston's  g.  f.  Alborac,  4  years,  103  lbs., 2        2 

Col.  Hampton's  ch.  g.  Hazard,  3  years,  was  nominated,  but  paid 
forfeit.     1st  heat,  3  m.  54  sec ;  2d  heat,  3  m.  57  sec. 

Tuesday,  Feb.  7. — Match  race. — Gen.  Washington's  bl.  f  4  yrs.,  full 
sister  to  Shark,  paid  forfeit  to  Mr.  Alston's  filly  Atalanta. 

Wednesday,  Feb.  8. — Jockey  Club  Purse. — 4  mile  heats  : 

Mr.  Fenwick's  Commerce, 11 

Col.  Hampton's  Lath, 2        dr. 

Thursday,  Feb.  9. — Jockey  Club  Purse. — 3  mile  heats. — Mr.  War- 
ren's Echaw,  aged,  133  lbs.,  beat  Capt.  Davis'  Patriot,  3  yrs.,  92  lbs., 
Mr.  Porcher's  Cupid,  4  years,  106  lbs.,  Capt.  McPherson's  Ajax,  4  yrs., 
106  lbs.,  and  Mr.  Alston's  f  Atalanta,  4  yrs.,  103  lbs. 

Friday,  Feb.  10. — Jockey  Club  Purse. — 2  mile  heats. — Col.  Alston's 
g.  i.  Alborac  beat,  in  a  good  race.  Gen.  Washington's  Telegraph. 

Saturday,  Feb.  11. — Handicap  race  for  a  purse  given  by  the  citizens. 

3  mile  heats. 

Gen.  Washington's  b.  h  Shark,  6  yrs.,  129  lbs.,  ....  1  1 
Col.  Alston's  g.  f.  Alborac,  4  yrs.,  103  lbs.,  .  '     .  .        2        2 

1798. — Monday,    Feb.    12. — Jockey    Club    Subscription    Purse   of 

81000.     Heats,  4  miles. 

Mr.  Fenwicke's  b.  h.  Commerce,  aged,  133  lbs.,  ...  1  2  1 
Gen.  Washington's  b.  h.  Shark,  aged,  133  lbs.,  ...  3  1  2 
Col.  Hampton's  Patriot,  4  yrs.,  106  lbs.,  ...         .233 


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First  heat,  8  m.  16  sec;  '2d  heat,  8  m.  lY  sec;  3d  heat,  8  m.  32 
sec.     Course  very  heavy  ;  an  exciting  race. 

Tuesdaij,  Feb.  13. — Sweepstakes  for  3  year  olds,  carrying  98  lbs., 

tvyo  mile  heats,  was  won  by  Capt.  McPherson's  Merry  Andrew,  beating 

in  two  heats  Mr.  Alston's  Wonder,  and  Mr.  Fenwick's  Highflyer.      Mr. 

Nisbitt's  Drone,  ami    Mr.  Pinckney's  Busybody,  were  nominated,  but 

■"paid  forfeit. 

Time — 4  m.  7  sec.     2d  heat,  3  m.  59  sec. 

Wednesday,  Feb.  14. — Jockey  Club  Purse. — 4  mile  heats. — Col. 
Hampton's  Harpoon  beat  in  two  heats  Capt.  Warren's  Echaw,  and  Mr. 
Bellinger's  Oronooko.  In  the  2d  heat,  Echaw  threw  his  rider,  and 
bolted. 

Thursday,  Feb.  \b. — Jockey  Club  Purse. — 3  mile  heats. — Col.  Mc- 
Pherson's Ajax,  carrying  120  lbs.,  beat  in  two  heats.  Col.  Hampton's  g. 
Lath,  117  lbs.,  and  Mr.  Bellinger's  Oronooko,  120  lbs. 

Friday,  FebAH. — Jockey  Club  Purse. — 2  mile  heats. — Mr.  Bellinger's 
Mogul,  4  yrs.,  112,  beat  Capt.  Davis'  colt  Vidette,  3  yrs.,  98  lbs. 

1799. —  Wednesday,  Feb.  13. — Jockey  Club  Purse. — 4  mile  heats. — 
Gen.  Washington's  b.  h.  Shark,  aged,  133  lbs.,  beat  Col.  Hampton's 
gelding  Harpoon,  6  yrs.,  126  lbs.,  and  Mr.  Singleton's  ra.  Greyhound,  6 
yrs.,  126  lbs.  First  heat  was  run  in  8  m.  10  sec;  2d  heat,  in  8  ra. 
8  sec. 

Thursday,  Feb.  14. — Jockey  Club  Purse. — 3  mile  heats. — Maj.  Mc- 
Pherson's Merry  Andrew  beat  in  two  heats  Mr.  Bellinger's  Mogul,  Mr. 
Nisbitt's  Alborac,  Col.  Hampton's  Lath,  Mr.  Burns'  Highflyer,  and  Mr. 
Singleton's  Highlander. 

The  rider  of  Highlander  fell  ;  Highlander  was,  in  consequence,  out 
of  the  race.     1st  heat — 6  m.  6  sec;  2d  heat,  6  m.  59  sec. 

Friday,  Feb.  15. — Jockey  Club  Purse. — 2  mile  heats. — Mr.  Single- 
ton's Highlander  in  two  heats  beat  Gen.  McPherson's  filly  Maid  of  All 
Work,  Mr.  Burns'  colt  Pincher,  and  Mr.  Quash's  Busybody.  1st  heat — 
3  m.  56  sec. ;  2d  heat — 3  m.  56  sec 

Saturday,  Feb.  16. — Handicap,  three  mile  heats. — Gen.  Washing- 
ton's Shark,  aged,  138  lbs.,  beat,  after  a  severe  race  of  four  heats,  Mr. 
Nisbitt's  Alborac,  6  yrs.,  126  lbs.,  Maj.  McPherson's  Merry  Andrew,  4 
yrs.,  109  lbs.,  Mr.  Singleton's  Greyhound,  6  yrs.,  126  lbs.,  and  Col. 
Hampton's  Harpoon,  126  lbs..  Merry  Andrew  won  the  first  heat  in  6 
m.  4  sec ;  Alborac  won  the  second  heat  in  6  m.  6  sec. ;  Shark,  the  3d 
and  4th  heats  in  6  m.  6  sec.  and  6  m,  16  sec 

To  ensure  at  all  future  meetings  of  the  club  a  purse  to  be  run  for  on 
the  Saturday  of  each  race  week,  it  was  determined  this  year  by  the 


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stewards,  O'Brien  Smith,  James  Burn,  and  Alexander  Nisbitt,  to  lay  a 
tax  upon  carriajD^es  and  horses  going  within  the  enclosure  of  the  race 
ground. 

1800. —  Wednesday,  Feb.  12 — Jockey  Club  Purse. — 4  mile  heats. 

Col.  Hampton's  Maria,  4  yrs.,  103  lbs.,      ...        -         I     walked  over. 
Mr.  Singleton's  Highlander,  4  yrs.,  103   lbs.,     ..12  dr. 

J.  McPherson's  Merry  Andrew,  5  years,  120  lbs.,      .        -      broke  down. 
Gen.  Washington's  Shark,  aged,  133  lbs.,  .         .        -      dis. 

First  heat,  8  m.  24  sec. ;  2d  heat,  8  m.  21  sec. 

Thursday/,  Feb.  13. — Jockey  Club  Purse. — 3  mile  heats. — Col. 
Hampton's  Harpoon,  aged,  130  lbs.,  beat  Gen.  McPherson's  Maid  of 
All  Work,  4  yrs,  103  lbs.,  Mr.  Alston's  Eliza,  4  yrs.,  103  lbs.,  and  Mr. 
Jenkins'  Mogul,  6  yrs.,  129  lbs.  Maid  of  All  Work  won  the  fifst  heat; 
Harpoon  the  2d  and  3d  heats. 

Friday,  Feb.  14. — Jockey  Club  Purse. — 2  mile  heats. — Col.  Hamp- 
ton's Rattle,  3  yrs.,  98  lbs.,  beat  in  two  heats  Gen.  McPherson's  Beau- 
fort, 3  yrs.,  98  lbs.,  Mr.  Bellinger's  Furiosus  Celsus,  3  yrs.,  98  lbs.,  Mr. 
Alston's  g.  Pilgarlic,  3  yrs.,  95,  and  Capt.  Warren's  Nominal,  3  yrs., 
98  lbs. 

Saturday,  Feb.  15. — Handicap,  3  mile  heats. 

Col.  Hampton's  Maria,  .11 

Gen.  McPherson's  Maid  of  All  Work, -        2 

Gen.  Washington's  Shark, -        dr. 

It  is  worthy  of  notice,  that  Col.  Hampton  won  every  day  during  the 
week. 

1801. —  Wednesday,  Feb.  11. — Jockey  Club  Purse. — 4  mile  heats. — 
Col.  Hampton's  Lady  Bull,  4  yrs.,  103  lbs.,  beat  in  two  heats  Maj.  Mc- 
Pherson's Merry  Andrew,  6  yrs.,  129  lbs.,  and  distanced  Gen.  Wash- 
ington's Shark,  aged,  133  lbs.,  and  Mr.  Alston's  Adelaide,  4  yrs.,  106 
lbs.     Time — 8  m.  8  sec;  2d  heat — 8  m.  22  sec. 

Thursday,  Feb.  12. — Jockey  Club  Purse. — 3  mile  heats. — Mr.  Jen- 
kins' Mogul,  aged,  133  lbs.,  beat  Col.  Hampton's  Highlander,  5  yrs., 
11 Y  lbs..  Gen.  Washington's  Young  Medley,  106  lbs.,  and  Mr.  Quash 's 
Miranda,  4  yrs.,  103  Ib.s.  Time  :  1st  heat — 8  m.  10  sec. ;  2d  heat,  8 
m.  10  sec. 

Friday,  Feb.  \Z. — Jockey  Club  Purse. — 2  mile  heats. — Col.  Hamp- 
ton's filly  Arabella,  4  yrs.,  112  lbs.,  heat  in  two  heats  Mr.  Bellinger's 
Furiosus  Celsus,  4  yrs.,  112  lbs.,  Mr.  Quash's  Ragamuffin,  3  yrs.,  98  lbs., 
Gen.  Washington's  Lavinia,  4  yrs.,  112  lbs.,  and  Mr.  Alston's  colt  Slouch, 
4  yrs.,  112  lbs. 

Saturday,  Feb.  14. — Handicap,  3  mile  heats. — Col.  Hampton's  f. 
Lady  Bull,  4  yrs.,  103  lbs.,  beat  Maj.  McPherson's  Merry  Andrew,  6 


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yrs.,  129  Ihs.,  Mr.  Jenkins'  Mogul,  aged,  133  lbs.,  and  Gen.  Washing- 
ton's Shark,  aged,  133  lbs. 

Col.  Hampton  nearly  came  in  for  the  same  good  luck  he  had  last 
year,  when  he  won  all  the  Jockey  Club  Prizes  in  one  week,  given  by 
the  South  Carolina  Jockey  Chib.  This  season,  he  secured  three  out  of 
four. 

1802. —  Wednesday/,   Feb.   10. — Jockey  Club  Purse,  |1, 000. — 4  mile 

heats. 

Gen.  Washington's  Ariadne,  4  yrs.,  by  Bedford 11 

Maj.  McPherson's  gr.  g.  Leviathan,  aged,  by  Flag-a-truce,     .         .        2        dr. 

Time — 8  m.  12  sec. 

Thursday,  Feb.  11. — Jockey  Club  Purse. — 3  mile  heats. — Gen, 
Washington's  br.  f.  Triimpeter,  4  yrs.,  beat  in  two  heats  Col.  Alston's 
Maria,  6  yrs.  old,  R.  Singleton's  bl.  m.  Dorocles,  5  yrs.,  T.  B.  Seabrook's 
b.  h.  Furiosus  Celsus,  5  yrs.,  and  Mr.  Jenkins'  Mogul,  aged  — .  1st  heat, 
6  m.  8  sec. ;  2d  heat,  6  m.  9  sec. 

Friday,  Feb.  12. — Jockey  Club  Purse. — 2  mile  heats. — Gen.  Mc- 
Pherson's br.  f.  Roxana,  3  yrs.,  by  Mai'plot,  out  of  Juliet,  by  Imp.  Mexi- 
can, beat  in  three  heats  Col.  Alston's  ch.  g.  Expectation,  3  yrs.,  (who 
won  the  first  heat,)  Capt.  Fields'  Buonaparte,  3  yrs.,  by  Justice,  and 
Wm.  Harleston's  br.  c.  Dragon,  4  yrs.,  by  Flimnap,  who  bolted  in  2d 
heat.     1st  heat — 3  m.  58  sec;  2d  heat.  3  m.  58  ;    3d  heat,  4  m.  11  sec. 

1803. —  Wednesday,  Feb.  9.— Jockey  Club  Purse,  $1,000. — 4  mile 
heats. — Col.  Alston's  bl.  m.  Maria,  aged,  by  Shark,  carrying  130  lbs., 
beat  in  two  heats  Maj.  McPherson's  g.  g.  Leviathan,  aged  — ,  Gen. 
Washington's  b.  \n.  Ariadne,  5  yrs..  Gen.  McPherson's  br.  f.  Roxana,  4 
yrs.,  Capt.  Fields'  b.  c.  Buonaparte,  4  yrs.,  and  Mr.  Chisolm's  ch.  c.  Live 
Oak,  4  yrs.  Time:  1st  heat,  8  m.  9  sec;  2d  heat,  8  m.  35  sec.  Ari- 
adne favorite  at  starting,  2  to  1. 

A  letter  from  Col.  Alston  to  Col.  Tayloe  states  that  Ariadne  had 
beaten  Black  Maria  a  few  weeks  before,  3  mile  heats,  in  three  heats, 
carrying  8  st.  5  lbs.,  to  9  st.  4  lbs.,  owing  to  Maria  being  too  fat.  Maria 
won  the  second  heat  in  5  w.  14  sec,  the  Course  where  this  trial  took 
place  being  149  yards  short  of  a  mile.  After  her  races  at  Charleston, 
Ariadne  was  sold  to  Mr.  Hoomes,  of  Virginia,  for  $1,200. 

Thursday,  Feb.  10. — Jockey  Club  Purse,  $750.-3  mile  heats. 

Col  Alston's  ch.  c.  Gallatin,  by  Bedford,  out  of  Mambrino,  filly,  1         1 
(Gallatin,  3  yrs.,  carrying  92  lbs.) 

R.  Singleton's  mare  Dorocles,  6  yrs., 2        dis. 

Capt.  Fields'  Belle  Rattle,  4  yrs., dis. 

Mr.  Clifton's  Republican,  4  yrs.,       ....'.  dis. 


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Gen.  Washington's  Achilles,  3  yrs., dr. 

Mr.  Bellinger's  Miss  Tims, dr. 

Mr.  Seabrooks'  Furiosus  Celsus, dr. 

Time:  1st  heat,  5  ra.  57  ;    2d  heat,  5  m,  53. 

Friday,  Feb.  11. — Jockey  Ckib  Purse. — 2  Mile  Heats. — Mr.  Clifton's 
b.  c.  Dm'C  Devil,  3  yrs.,  by  Dare  Devil,  beat  Col.  Alston's  ch.  f.  jSTimble, 
3  yrs.;  Mr,  Bellinger's  cb.  f.  Miss  Tims,  4  yrs.;  Gen.  Washington's  Surry 
Doe,  3  yrs.,  and  Mr.  Singleton's  ch.  c.  Charles  Fox,  3  yrs.  First  lieat,  4 
m.,  6  sec;  second  heat,  4  m.,  2  sec. 

Saturday,  Feb.  12. — Handicap, — 3  Mile  Heats. 

Col.  Alston's  ch.  c.  Gallatin,  3  yrs.,  92  lbs., 11 

Gen.  McPherson's  br.  f.  Eosana, 0        0 

Gen.  Washington's  b.  m.  Ariadne 0        0 

Capt.  Fields'  Belle  Rattle, 0        0 

Capt.  Fields'  b.  c.  Buonaparte,  .        • dis. 

Major  McPherson's  g.  g.  Leviathan,  aged, dis. 

Time — 1st  heat,  5  m.,  52  sec;  2d  heat,  6m,  This  was  a  beautiful 
race — the  time  made  very  good,  as  the  Course  was  sloppy  and  muddy, 
owing  to  a  heavy  fall  of  rain  on  the  morning  of  the  race.  This  race  is 
the  last  report  we  have  of  Leviathan  as  a  racer — we  will,  therefore,  take 
leave  of  him,  by  saying  that  he  was  a  gr.  g.,  by  gr.  h.  Flag-a-Truce,  bred 
by  Mr.  Turpin,  of  Gooceland  County,  in  Virginia.  Leviathan's  career 
was  very  brilliant  in  Virginia  for  many  years — it  was  not  until  he  was 
aged,  and  worn  down  by  hard  usage,  that  he  was  purchased  by  Maj.  Mc- 
Pherson,  and  brought  to  South  Carolina.  The  amount  paid  for  him  was 
£180. 

A  written  pedigree  of  Leviathan  was  drawn  up  by  Col.  Tayloe,  and  was 
transferred  with  the  horse,  when  purchased  by  Maj.  McPherson — it  was 
mislaid ;  but  it  is  well  known  he  was  out  of  a  mare  by  imported  Med- 
ley, his  sire  being  Flag-a-Truce,  by  Goldfinder.  Leviathan  was,  unfor- 
tunately, altered,  from  having  been  as  a  colt,  somewhat  overgrown  and 
unpromising. 

Pedigree  of  Gallatin. — Gallatin,  (Expectation,)  ch.,  foaled  1799;  bred 
by  Hay  Baittaile,  Esq.,  of  Caroline  County,  Virginia ;  was  got  by  im- 
ported Bedford  ;  bis  dam,  imported,  by  Lord  Grosvenor's  Marabrino,  (the 
dam,  also,  of  the  celebrated  running  mares,  Fairy  and  Ariadne,  and  of 
Eliza,  Bertrand's  dam,  by  Bedford  ;)  his  grandam,  in  England,  sister  to 
Nailor's  Sally,  by  Blank,  Ward,  Merhn,  Pert,  St.  Martin.  Thus  running 
back  at  once  from  Blank,  by  the  Godolphin  Arabian,  almost  to  the  ori- 
gin of  the  English  racing  stock,  from  the  Arabians,  Barbs,  <fec.  St.  Mar- 
tin, the  last  horse  in  Gallatin's  pedigree,  was  by  Spanker,  out  of  a  natu- 
ral Barb  mare.     Spanker,  by  the  D'Arcy  Yellow  Turk,  (Lord  Fairfax's 


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Morocco  Barb,)  out  of  Bald  Peg,  an  Arabian  mare.  Bedford's  crosses  are 
the  best  (through  Dungannon  and  Highflyer)  from  Eclipse  and  Herod, 
the  ne  plus  ultra  blood. 

1804. —  Wednesdmj,  Feb.  15. — Jockey  Club,  Purse  |1,000.— 4  Mile 
Heats. — Col.  Alston's  ch.  c.  Gallatin,  4  yrs.,  by  Bedford,  walked  over. 

Thursday,  Feb.  16. — Jockey  Club  Purse,  1700. — Col.  Alston's  Nancy 
Air,  4  yrs.,  by  Bedford,  103  lbs.,  beat,  in  two  heats,  Mr.  Bellinger's  Gus- 
tavus,  4  yrs.,  106  lbs.,  and  Mr.  Clifton's  Young  Dare  Devil,  4  yrs.,  106 
lbs. 

Friday,  Feb.  IV.— Jockey  Club,  Purse  $500.-2  Mile  Heats.— Col. 
Hampton's  Dungannon  4  yrs.,  by  Bedford,  103  lbs.,  beat,  in  two  heats, 
Mr.  Bellinger's  Gustavus,  Maj.  McPherson's  Milk  Sop,  and  Col.  Alston's 
Gabriel.     1st  heat,  4ra.,  1  seij.;  2d  heat,  4  m.,  5  sec. 

Saturday,  Feb.  18. — Handicap  Race. — 3  Mile  Heats. 

Col.  Alston's  Gallatin,  4  yrs.,  by  Bedford,  106  lbs.,  ....        1         1 
Col.  Hampton's  Dungannon,  4  yrs,  by  Bedford,         ....        2        dr. 
Mr.  Clifton's  Young  Dare  Devil,  4  yrs., 3        dr. 

10  to  1  on  Gallatin  against  the  field. 

The  Bedford  Stock,  it  will  be  seen,  distinguished  itself  this  season.  The 
first  day,  Gallatin,  by  Bedford,  walked  over.  The  second  day,  Nancy 
Air,  by  Bedford,  won  with  great  ea.se.  (This  mare  subsequently  became 
the  dam  of  Transport,  and  grand  dam  of  Bertrand.)  The  third  day,  Dun- 
gannon, by  Bedford,  won  ;  and  the  fourth  day,  Gallatin,  by  Bedford,  won, 
and  Dungannon,  by  Bedford,  was  second  in  the  I'ace. 

As  Nancy  Air  was  destined  to  play  a  conspicuous  part  on  our  Turf,  we 
subjoin  the  following  interesting  account  of  her  origin  : 

"  An  old  gentlemen  cf  Caroline  County,  Virginia,  in  the  neighborhood 
of  Col.  Willi.s,  often  described  the  Colonel's  little  tackey,  (about  fourteen 
hands  high,  apparently^  worth  about  |30,  on  which  the  children  rode  to 
school,)  that  was  put  to  the  famous  imported  Shark,  and  brought  An-  - 
nette.  It  was  not  supposed  she  had  any  pretensions  to  "  blood."  Annette 
was  put  to  imported  Bedford,  and  produced  Nancy  Air.  The  late  Col. 
Tayloe  having  run  her  successfully  under  the  name  of  Phantasmagoria, 
Annette's  next  foal,  the  Maid  of  the  Oaks,  by  imported  Spread  Eagle, 
was  entered  in  the  great  sweepstakes  at  Fredericksburg,  in  1804  ;  she 
bolted,  and  the  purse  was  won  by  Col.  Tayloe,  with  Mr.  Carter's  Caroline, 
by  imported  Mufti.  The  Maid  of  the  Oaks  won  all  her  subsequent  races, 
until  she  was  trained  off,  beating  the  best  horses  of  her  day — Surprise, 
Oscar,  Floretta,  Top  Gallant,  Peace  Maker,  &c.  Nancy  Air  acquired 
great  fame  in  South  Carohna.  Both  have  since  become  equally  distin- 
guished as  brood  mares — the  one  in  South  Carolina,  the  other  in  New 


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Jersey.  Their  stork  are  now  of  the  first  celebrity  ;  Nancy  Air  was  the 
dam  of  Transport,  stated  by  Mr.  Richardson  to  have  been  the  best  racer 
of  her  day.  By  Bertrand,  she  brought  Bertrand  Jr.  and  Julia ;  and  by 
Sir  Archy,  Sir  William,  the  sire  to  Little  Venus  and  Plato.  The  Maid 
of  the  Oaks  produced  by  Duroc,  Marshal  Duroc,  (a  good  racer,  and  sire 
to  the  renowned  Count  Piper ;)  and  his  own  sister,  Cinderella,  dam  or 
grand  dam  of  Celeste,  Massaniello  and  Lalla  Rookh,  by  imported  Expedi- 
tion, the  dam  of  Medoc  and  Midas,  and  grand  dam  of  Goliah,  by  Hick- 
ory ;  the  Lady  of  the  Lake,  dam  of  Mr.  Orme's  Jessie,  and  of  Maryland 
Eclipse,  a  good  racer,  and  sire  to  Mr.  Dorsey's  fleet  filly,  Ann  Page  ;  and 
by  American  Eclipse,  Orphan  Boy,  now  a  popular  stallion  in  the  west, 
and  a  colt  of  great  promise,  until  he  was  curbed.  The  Maid  of  the  Oaks 
may  have  produced  others,  besides  the  five  we  have  enumerated  ;  but  if 
so,  we  are  uninformed.  Thus  a  little  insignificant  poney  was  grand  dam 
of  renowned  racers,  one  of  them  of  the  first  fame  in  her  day,  and  the 
ancestor  of  many  first  rate  horses  that  have  been  at  the  head  of  the  turf — 
Marshal  Duroc,  Count  Piper,  Medoc,  Midas,  Goliah,  Celeste,  Bertrand 
Jr.,  Julia,  Little  Venus  and  others.  Her  descendants  have  been  worth 
largely  over  $50,000,  at  a  moderate  calculation.  Is  not  such  success, 
though  a  remarkable  instance,  sufficient  to  encourage  our  unpretending 
farmers  to  breed  from  thorough  bred  horses,  even  if  they  have  no  blooded 
mares  to  begin  with  ?" 

1805. —  Wednesday,  Feb.  20. — Jockey  Club  Purse. — 4  Mile  Heats. 
Weight  for  age. 

J.  P.  Kichardson's  ch.  c.  Sertorius,  4  yrs.,  by  Alderman, ...        1        1 
Col.  Alston's  ch.  h.  Gallatin,  5  yrs.,  by  Bedford,        ....        2        2 

First  heat,  8m.,  16  sec;  2d  heat,  8m.,  18  sec. 

Thursday,  Feb.  21.— Jockey  Clnb  Purse. — 3  Mile  Heats. — Col.  Al- 
ston's b.  m.  Nancy  Air,  5  yrs.,  by  Bedford,'  beat  Col.  Hampton's  b.  g. 
Dungaunon,  by  Bedford,  and  Gen.  McPherson's  Cinderella,  by  Sir  Peter 
Teazle.     Time  of  both  heats  the  same — 5m.,  55  sec. 

Friday,  Feb.  22. — Jockey  Club  Purse. — 2  Mile  Heats. — Gen.  McPher- 
son's ch.  c.  Blue  Beard,  by  Sterling,  beat  Mr.  Singleton's  ch.  f.  Gourdseed, 
by  Commerce,  and  Col.  Alston's  Gabriella.  Time — 1st  heat,  3m.  45  sec; 
2d  heat,  3  m.,  56 — a  fine  race. 

Saturday,  Feb.  23. — Handicap  Purse. — 3  Mile  Heats. 

J.  P.  Richardson's  ch.  c.  Sertorius,  4  yrs.,  106  lbs.,   ....        1        I 
Col.  Alston's  b.  m. Nancy  Air,  5  yrs,  117  lbs., 2        2 

This  was  a  splendid  and  very  sporting  race.  Time — 1st  heat,  5m.,  53 
sec;  2d  heat,  5m.,  52  sec.  Sertorius  covered  himself  with  honor :  it 
was  quite  glory  enough  for  one  week  to  have  defeated  two  such  cracks 


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as  Gallatin  and  Nancy  Air.  Gallatin,  however,  was  not  up  to  the  mark. 
When  Richard  is  himself  again,  and  he  should  meet  Sertorius,  as  was 
said  of  the  famed  John  Gilpin, 

"  Should  he  ever  start  in  another  race, 
May  we  be  there  to  see." 

Col.  Alston  determined  this  year,  after  having  run  some  of  the  best 
horses  that  ever  started  in  South  Carolina — namely,  Maria,  (the  dam  of 
Lady  Lightfoot,)  and  Gallatin,  cum  multis  aliis — to  quit  the  Turf.  He 
bred,  also,  Lottery  and  Peggy.  He,  therefore,  offered  for  sale  all  his 
race  horses,  and  young  stock,  most  of  them  got  by  Bedford,  Marplot, 
Sterling  and  Spread  Eagle.  Three  of  his  mares,  that  were  afterwards 
sold,  were  imported — namely,  the  dam  of  Ariadne  and  Gallatin  ;  another 
called  Peggy,  bred  by  Lord  Clermont,  and  Anvilina,  got  by  the  Prince 
of  Wales  famous  horse  Anvil,  out  of  O'Kelly's  celebrated  mare  Augusta, 
by  his  stallion  Eclipse.  His  whole  stud  was  put  under  the  hammer,  soon 
after  the  Charleston  Races  in  1807  ;  and  by  it,  Messrs.  Singleton  and 
Richardson  were  enabled  for  Aany  years  to  keep  up  very  strong  stables. 
Previous  to  the  general  sale  taking  place,  Mr.  Richardson  trained  and  en- 
tered Nancy  Air,  and  Mr.  Singleton  Lottery. 

ISOQ.— Wednesday,  Feb.  19.— Jockey  Club,  Purse  |800.— 4  Mile 
Heats. 

John  p.  Richardson's  b  ra.  Nancy  Air,  6  yrs.,  126  lbs.,     . 
Mr.  Stanard's  Monticello,  4  yrs.,  by  Spread  Eagle,  106  lbs., 
Col.  McPherson's  Blue  Beard,  4  yrs.,  106  lbs.,  .... 

First  heat — Yra.,  50  sec;  no  time  kept  of  2d  heat. 
Thursday,  Feb.  20. — ^Jockey  Club  Purse. — 3  Mile  Heats. 

Mr.  Stanard's  Top  Gallant, 1 

Gen.  McPherson's  Psyche, bolted  <fc  dist. 

Friday,  Feb.  21. — Jockey  Club  Purse. — 2  Mile  Heats. — Mr.  Stanard's 
Monroe  beat  Gen.  McPherson's  Diable,  and  J.  P.  Richardson's  Belvide- 
ra.     First  heat,  3m.,  59  sec;  second  heat,  3m.,  54  sec. 

Saturday,  Feb.  22. — Handicap  Purse. — 3  Mile  Heats. — Gen.  McPher- 
son's Psyche,  3  yrs.,  89  lbs.,  beat  Mr.  Richardson's  Nancy  Air,  6  yrs., 
126  lbs.,  and  Mr.  Stanard's  Monticello,  4  yrs.  First  heat,  5  m.,  56  sec; 
second  heat,  6  m.,  2  sec. 

Psyche  is  agr.  f.,  foaled  in  1802,  bred  by  Lord  Derby,  at  Knowsley,  in 
England,  (near  Liverpool.)  She  was  got  by  Sir  Peter  Teazle,  out  of  a 
mare  called  Bab ;  she  by  Bordeaux,  out  of  Speraza,  who  was  got  by 
Eclipse,  and  was  own  sister  to  Saltram.     Psyche  was  bought  in  1803, 


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from  Lord  Derby,  by  Gen.  John  McPherson.  She  was  the  dam  of  Blank, 
Mark  Time,  Lamballe,  and  Grey  Beard.  She  had  great  strength  and 
good  action,  with  much  speed  ;  yet  not  having  length  in  her  stride, 
could  not  be  depended  upon  to  go  four  miles.  Three  miles  was  her  forte. 
1807. —  Wedneaday,  Feb  18. — Jockey  Club  Purse. — 4  Mile  Heats, 

Col.  McPherson's  g.  f.  Psyche,  4  yrs.,  by  Sir  Peter  Teazle,  103  lbs.,  1         1 

Col.  Hampton's  Messenger,  6  yrs.,  by  Messenger,  126  lbs.,       ..22 

Time — 1st  heat,  8  m.,  24  sec;  2d  heat,  8  m.,  29  sec, 
Thursday,  Feb.  19. — Jockey  Club  Purse. — 3  Mile  Heats, 

Wm.  Alston,  Jun.'s  ch.  f.  Peggy,  3  yrs., 

Col.  Hampton's  b.  c.  Merchant,  3  yrs.,  by  Commerce, 

E.  B.  Fishburne's  Eclipse,  6  yrs., 

First  heat,  Peggy  ran  in  5  m.,  56  sec. 

Friday,  Feb.  20. — Jockey  Club  Purse. — 2  Mile  Heats.  R.  Single- 
ton's f.  Lottery^  3  yrs.,  beat  Col.  Hampton's  colt  Omar,  3  yrs. ;  Daniel 
Flud's  f  Little  Witch,  3  yrs.;  P.  Smith's  ch.  f.  Orange  Girl  started,  but 
bolted  the  first  mile  of  the  first  heat,  and  threw  her  rider.  First  heat,  4 
ra,,  second  heat,  3  m,,  50  sec. 

This  was  the  famous  Lottery's  first  appearance  in  public. 

Saturday,  Feb.  21.  —  Handicap  Purse. — 3  Mile  Heats, — Wm,  Al- 
ston's Per/r/y,  3  yrs.,  beat  E.  B.  Fishburne's  Eclipse,  6  yrs.  and  Col.  Mc- 
Pherson's Psyche,  4  yrs. — a  fine-  race.  First  heat,  5  m.,  56  ;  2d  heat, 
6  m. 

lu  this  year,  the  imported  horse  Star,  a  dark  brown  horse,  by  High- 
flyer, out  of  a  mare  by  Snap,  chosen  for  South  Carolina,  from  the  supe- 
riority of  his  blood  and  performances,  covered  in  St.  Andrew's  Parish,  at 
$50  the  season.  Star  died  in  this  State,  in  1811.  Also,  another  stal- 
lion, Recruit,  a  ch.  h.,  of  remarkable  size,  bone  and  muscle,  stood  at  the 
plantation  of  John  P.  Richardson,  Esq.,  near  the  High  Hills.  Recruit 
was  bred  by  S.  Ruffen,  Esq.,  of  Brunswick  County,  Virginia  ;  foaled  in 
Spring  of  1801 ;  got  by  imported  Sterling,  out  of  Camilla,  by  Wildair. 

1808. —  Wednesday,  Feb.  l7-:^Jockey  Club  Purse. — 4  mile  heats. 

R.  Singleton's  ch.  f.  Lottery,  4  yrs.,  by  Bedford,  103  lbs.,         ..11 
O'Brien  Smith's  eh.  f.  Peggy,  4  yrs.,  103  lbs.,    ....  22 

First  heat,  7  m.  56  sec. ;  2d  heat,  8  m.  8  sec. 

Thursday,  Feb.  18. — Jockey  Club  Purse. — 3  mile  heats. — O'Brien 
Smith's  b.  c.  Merchant,  4  yrs.,  by  Commerce,  106  lbs.,  beat  in  two 
heats  J.  B,  Richardson's  br,  ra,  Nancy  Air,  aged,  130  lbs..  Col.  Hamp- 
ton's b.  f  Caroline,  3  yrs.,  89  lbs.,  Philip  Smith's  ch.  f.  Orange  Girl,  4 
yrs.,  103  lbs.,  and  John  P.  Richardson's  ch.  h.  Eclipse  Herod,  5  yrs., 
120  lbs.     1st  heat,  5  m.  56  ;  2d  heat,  6  m. 


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Friday,  Feb.  19. — Jockey  Club  Purse. — 2  mile  heats. 

O'Brien  Smith's  b.  c.  Farmer,  3  yrs.,  by  Dare  Devil,  ...  1  1 
W.  Hampton's  br.  c.  Milo,  3  yrs.,  by  Dragon,  ....  2  2 
J.  B.  Richardson's  g.  Pegasus,  . 3        3 

A  beautiful  race  between  Farmer  and  Milo.  1st  heat,  4  m.  2  sec. ; 
2d  heat,  3  m.  57  sec. 

Saturday,  Feb.  20. — Handicap  purse,  3  mile  heats. — O'Brien  Smith's 
b.  c.  Merchant,  4  yrs.,  106  lbs.,  beat  P.  Smith's  ch.  f.  Orange  Girl,  4 
yrs.,  103  lbs.,  J.  B.  Richardson's  br.  m.  Nancy  Air,  aged,  130  lbs.,  and 
J.  P.  Richardson's  ch.  h.  Eclipse  Herod,  5  yrs.,  120  lbs. 

1809. —  Wednesday,  Feb.  15. — Jockey  Club  Purse. — 4  mile  heats. — 
W.  Hampton's  g.  c.  by  Diomed,  4  yrs.,  beat  J.  P.  Richardson's  b.  h. 
Cerberus,  4  yrs..  Col.  McPherson,s  b.  h.  Pluto,  and  Mr.  Clither all's  ch. 
h.  Duke  of  Limbs.  Time — 8  m.  17  sec. ;  2d  heat,  8  m.  33  sec. ;  track 
heavy. 

Thursday,  Feb.  16. — Jockey  Club  Purse. — 3  mile  heats. — R.  Single- 
ton's ch.  m.  Lottery,  5  yrs.,  by  Bedford,  beat  Maj.  Smith's  b.  c.  Farmer, 
4  yrs.,  by  Dare  Devil,  W.  Hampton's  ch.  c,  3  yrs.,  by  Bedford,  J.  R. 
Pringle's  ch.  c.  Pocotaligo,  3  yrs.,  by  Bedford,  and  Phihp  Smith's  ch. 
m.  Orange  Girl,  5  yrs.,  by  Oronooko.  First  heat,  5  m.  58  sec. ;  2d 
heat,  6  m.  15  sec. 

Friday,  Feb.  17. — Jockey  Club  Purse. — 2  mile  heats. — W.  Hamp- 
ton's br.  c.  Milo,  4  yrs.,  by  Dragon,  beat  Mr.  Hutchinson's  b.  c.  Monti- 
cello,  4  yrs.,  by  Bedford,  R.  Singleton's  ch.  f.  3  yrs.,  by  Bedford,  J.  R. 
Pringle's  ch.  c.  Crescent,  3  yrs.,  by  Star,  and  J.  B.  Richardson's  ch.  f. 
Charlotte,  3  yrs.,  by  Galllatin.  Charlotte  threw  her  rider,  and  was  dis- 
tanced.    1st  heat,  3  m.  52  sec;  2d  heat,  3  m.  52  sec. 

Saturday,  Feb.  18. — Handicap,  3  mile  heats, — R.  Singleton's  ch.  m. 
Lottery,  5  yrs.,  117  lbs.,  beat  Maj.  Smith's  b.  c.  Farmer,  4  yrs.,  106  lbs., 
b.  h.  Merchant,  5  yrs.,  120  lbs.,  W.  Hampton's  g.  c.  4  yrs.,  106  lbs;,  and 
J.  B.  Richardson's  g.  c.  Cerberus,  4  yrs.,  106  lbs.  1st  heat,  6  m.  56 
sec. ;  2d  heat,  6  m.  6.  sec.     Course  very-lieavy. 

Col.  J.  E.  McPherson  was  elected  this  year  President  of  the  South 
Carolina  Jockey  Club,  which  office  he  filled,  (with  the  exception  of 
1811,  1812,  and  1813,)  to  1834,  with  the  most  marked  urbanity  and 
signal  advantage  to  the  Club. 

1810. — The  weights  were  this  year  reduced  from  the  heavier  weights 
previously  required  to  be  carried.     They  were  fixed  as  follows  : 

On  the  4  and  3  mile  days,  aged  horses,  126  -lbs.;  6  years  old,  120 
lbs. ;  5  years,  112  lbs. ;  4  years,  102  lbs. ;  3  years,  90  lbs. ;  2  years,  a 
feather.     On  the  2  mile  day,  (no  horse  allowed   to  start  that  is  not  un- 


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der  5  years,)  4  years,  106  lbs. ;    3  years,  94  lbs. ;    2   years,   a  feather. 
Mares,  fillies,  and  geldings  allowed  3  lbs. 

Wednesday,  Feb.  28. — Jockey  Club  Purse. — 4  mile  heats,  free  to  all 
ages. 

R.  Singleton's  ch.  m.  Lottery,  6  yrs.,  by  Bedford,    ....         1         1 
O'Brien  Smith's  ch.  m.  Peggy,  6  yrs.,  by  Bedford,  ....        2        2 

Time — 1st  heat,  8  m.  3  sec. ;  •2d  heat,  8  m.  10  sec. 
Thursday,  March  1. — Jockey  Club  Purse. — 3  mile  heats. — Condi- 
tions as  before. 

J.  P.   Richardson's   ch.   c.   Virginias,   4   yrs.,    by  Diomed,    dam   by 

Chatham,    ..........  1  1 

R.  Singleton's  b.  f.  Bellissima,  4  yrs.,  by  Bedford,    ....  4  2 

T.  H.  Hutchinson's  b.  h.  Monticello,  5  yrs.,  by  Bedford,  2  dis. 

J.  B.  Richardson's  g.  g.  Privateer,  5  yrs.,  by  Dragon,        ...  3  dia. 

First  heat — 5  ra.  59  sec. ;  2d  heat,  6  m. 

Friday,  March  2. — Jockey  Club  Purse. — 2  mile  heats.  Colts  and 
fillies,  4  year  olds,  106  lbs.;  3  year  olds,  94  lbs. ;  two  year  olds,  a 
feather. 

Maj.  Smith's  ch.c  Buonaparte,  4  yrs.,  by  Bedford,  ...  1  1 

J.  B.  Richardson's  b.  c.  Rossicuician,  3  yrs  ,  by  Dragon, ...  2  2 

J.  P.  Richardson's  ch.  g.  Stride,  4  yrs.,  by  Bedford,  ...  dr. 

Wm.  Taylor's  ch,  c.  Leonidas,  4  yrs.,  by  Bedford,  .         .         .  dis.  - 

Time — 1st  heat,  3  m.  53  sec;  2d  heat,  4  m.  2  sec. 
Saturday,  March  3. — Handicap  purse,  $457,  3  mile  heats. 


J.  P.  Richardson's  ch.  c.  Virginius,  100  lbs., 
T.  H.  Hutchinson's  b.  h.  Monticello,  85  lbs  , 
R.  Singleton's  b.  f.  Bellissima,  85  lbs., 


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1st  heat,  6  m.  9  sec. ;  2d  heat,  5  m.  58  sec;  3d  heal,  6  m.  10  sec. 
1811. —  Wednesday,  Feb.  21. — ^Jockey  Club  Purse,  $430.68,  4  mile 
heats,  free  for  all  ages. 

Col.   Richardson's    ch.  h.  Virginius,   5   yrs.,    by   Diomed,   dam  by 

Chatham, 2        11 

Maj.  Smith's  b.  h.  Farmer,  6  yrs.,  by  Dare  Devil,    ...        1        2        2 

Time — 1st  heat,  8  ra.  14  sec;  2d  heat,  8  m.  2  sec, ;  3d  heat,  8 
m.  13  sec. 

Thursday,  Feb.  28. — Jockey  Club  Purse,  $323. — 3  mile  heats. — 
Weight  for  age. 

J.  B.  Richardson's  b.  c.  Rossicuician,  4  yrs.,  by  Dragon,  ...  1         1 

Maj.  Smith's  ch.m.  Peggy,  aged,  by  Bedford,           ....  3        2 

Wm.  Taylor's  ch.  c.  Hepl^estion,  3  yrs.,  by  Buzzard,         ...  23 

R.  Cunningham's  b.  g.  Mountaineer,  5  yrs.,  by  Bedford, .  dis. 

1st  heat  run  in  5  m.  50  sec. ;  2d  heat,  6  m.  3  sec. 


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Friday,  March  1. — Jockey  Club  Purse,  $215.44. — 2  mile  heats. — 
Colts  and  fillies. 

O'Brien  Smith's  ch.f.  Claudia,  3  yrs.,  by  Bedford,    ....         1         I 
J.  B.  Richardson's  b.  c.  Financier,  3  yrs.,  by  Buzzard,      ...        2        2 

Time — 1st  heat,  3  m.  50 ;   2d  heat,  3  m.  53  sec. 

Saturday,  March  2. — Handicap  purse,  $300,  3  mile  heats. 

Wm.  Taylor's  ch.  c.  Hephestion,  90  lbs.,    ......         1         1 

Col.  Richardson's  ch.  h.  Virginias,  112  lbs., 2        2 

1st  heat,  6  m.  2  sec. :  2d  heat,  5  m.  50  sec  Virginius  the  favorite 
at  starting. 

1812. —  Wednesday,    Feb.    26, — Jockey   Club    Purse,   $425,  4   mile 

heats,  free  to  all  ages,  weight  for  age. 

Wm.    Taylor's  ch.   c.   Hephestion,    4   yrs.,  by  Buzzard,  out  of  Imp. 

Castianira,  .........  1         1 

J.  B,  Richardson's  b.  h.  Rossicuician,  5  yrs.,  by  Dragon,  .  2        2 

J.  Aydelott's  b.  c.  Postboy,  4  yrs.,  by  Noseley,         ....  dis. 

Time — 1st  heat,  8  m.  9  sec;  2d  heat,  8  m.  58  sec. 
Thursday,  Feb.   27. — Jockey   Club   Purse,   $319. — 3   mile  heats. — 
Conditions  as  before. 

Chas.  Richardson's  b.  c.  Financier,  4  yrs.,  by  Bedford,     ...  1  1 

Wm.  Taylor's  b.  f  China-eyed  Girl,  3  yrs., 3  2 

.J.  B.  Richardson's  ch.  h.  Virginius,  6  yrs., 4  3 

J.  Aydelott's  g.  g.  Sour  Grout,  aged, 2  4 

Capt.  Cunningham's  b.  m.  Golden  Eagle,  5  yrs.,       ....  dis. 


1st  heat,  6  ra.  ;  2d  heat,  5  m.  58  sec. 

Friday,  Feb.  28. — Jockey  Club  Purse,  $212.-2  mile  heats,  for  colts 
and  fillie.''. 

.J.  B.  Richardson's  ch.  f.  Claudia,  4  yrs.,  by  Bedford,         ...         1         1 
Wm.  Taylor's  ch.  c.  Tom  Pipes, 2        dr. 

The  first  heat  Avas  run  in  4  m.  14  sec. 

Saturday,  Feb.  29. — Handicap  Purse, — 3  mile   heat. — Free  for  any 
horse  that  had  run  the  preceding  days. 


Chas.  Richardson's  b.  c.  Financier,  102  lbs., 
C.  Sinkler's  ch.  h.  Virginius,  110  lbs., 
J.  B.  Richardson's  b.  h.  Rossicuician,  107  lbs., 
L.  Aydelott's  g.  g.  Sour-Crout,  aged,  101  lbs.,    . 


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Time — 1st  heat,  6  m.  36  sec  ;  2d  heat,  5  m.  52  sec. 

Financier  was  bred  in  South  Carolina,  by  (''ol.  John  Richardson,  He 
is  a  bay,  of  fine  size,  about  16  hands  high,  of  fair  speed  and  great 
beauty.  He  is  by  Imp,  Buzzard,  out  of  Dorocles,  by  Imp.  Shark  ; — 
Dorocles,  full  sister  of  Black  Maria,  the  dam  of  Lady  Lightfoot. 


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1813.— Wednesdat/,  Feb.  24.— Jockey  Club  Purse,  $473.76.-4  Mil© 
Heats,  weight  for  age,  as  in  preceding  year. 

C.  Richardson's  b.h.  Financier,  5  yrs.,     ....  211 

A.  Middleton's  b.  h.  Rossicuician,  6  yrs.,  .         .  1         2        dr. 

A  waiting  race  on  both  sides,  as  the  time  denotes.  1st  heat,  8  m.  30 
sec. ;  2d  heat,  9  m.  37  sec. 

Thursday,  Feb.  25. — Jockey  Club  Purse,  $355. — 3  Mile  Heats,  con- 
ditions as  before.  Col.  Richardson's  ch.  m.  Claudia.,  5  yrs.,  by  Bed- 
ford, walked  over. 

Friday,  Feb.  26.— Jockey  Club  Purse,  $236.88. — 2  Mile  Heats,  for 
colts  and  fillies  only. 

J.  B.  Richardson's  ch.  f.  Miss  Fortune,  3  yrs.,  by  Star,  ...  1  1 
C.  Sinkler'sb.  f.  Corinna,  3yrs.,  by  Florizel,  .  ...  2  2 
AV.  S.  Bull's  f.  Gabriella, 3,3 

Saturday,  Feb.  27. — Handicap  Purse,  $193. — 3  Mile  Heats. 

J.  B.  Richardson's  b.  h.  Rossicuician,  6  yrs.,  120  lbs.,  .211 
R.  Cunningham's  b.  h.  Slap  Bang,  5  yrs.,  a  feather,  ..122 
C.  Richardson's  b.  h.  Financier,  5  yrs.,  112  lbs.,  ...  3  3  3 
W.  S.  Bull's  Gabriella,  a  feather,  saddle  slipt,         .         .         .        dis. 

Time — 1st  heat,  5  m.  48;  2.1  heat,  G  m.  2  sec. ;  3d  heat,  6  m.  5  sec. 
1814. —  Wednesday,  Feb.  23.— Jockey  Club  Purse,  $268.71. — 4  Mile 
Heats,  free  to  all  ages  ;  weight  for  age. 

W.  S.  Branch's  b.  h.  Massena,  5  yrs.,  by  Citizen,  ...  2  1  1 
Col.  Richardson's  ch.  f.  Miss  Fortune,  4  yrs.,  by  Star,     ..122 

Time — 7  m.  57  sec. ;  2d  heat,  7  m.  58  sec. ;  3d  heat,  8  m.  10  sec. ; 
a  highly  exciting  race. 

Thursday,  Feb.  24. — Jockey  Club  Purse,  $201. — 3  Mile  Heats,  con- 
ditions as  before. 

Mr.  Laborde's  b.  h.  Slap  Bang,  6  yrs.,  by  Bedford, 
Col.  Richardson's  ch.  m.  Claudia,  6  yrs.,  by  Bedford, 
Mr  Branch's  b.  m.  Capella,  4  yrs.,  by  Nosey, 

1st  heat,  6  m,  5  sec. ;  2d  heat,  6  m.  4  sec. ;  3d  heat,  6  m.  17  sec. ; 
4th  heat,  6  m.  26  sec. 

Friday,  Feb.  25. — Jockey  Club  Purse,  $134. — 2  Mile  Heats,  colts 
and  fillies. 

W.  S.  Branch's  ch.  c.  Little  Billy,  4  yrs.,  by  Florizel,  ...  1  1 
J.  B.  Richardson's  b.  f.  Corinna,  4  yrs.,  by  Florizel,         ...         2        2 

1st  heat,  3  m.  55  sec;  2d  heat,  3  m.  58  sec. 

Saturday,  Feb.  26. — Handicap  Purse,  $119. — 3  Mile  Heats. 
W.  S.  Branch's  ch.  c.  Little  Billy,  4  yrs.,  102  lbs.,    ...         .11 
Mr.  Laborde's  b.  h.  Slap  Bang,  6  yrs.,  120  lbs.,         ....        2        2 
J.  B.  Richardson's  ch.  m.  Claudia,  6  yrs.,  117  lbs.,  ....        3        3 

Time — 5  m.  58  sec.  ;  2d  heat,  5  m.  53^. 


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1815. —  Wednesday,  Feb.  22. — Jockey  Club  Purse. — 4  Mile  Heats. 

R.  Singleton's  ch.  c.  Johnny.  4  yrs.,  by  Potomac,     .         .         .         1         q         ^ 
Glasscock  &  Edmington's  ch.  g.  Bernadotte,  4  yrs.,  by  Gallatin,      0         1  0 

J.  R.  Richardson's  b.  m.  Corinna,  5  yrs  ,  by  Florizel,       ..000 


1         1 


Thursday,  Feb.  23. — Jockey  Club  Purse. — 3  Mile  Heats. 

Mr.  Sparrow's  ch.  h.  Little  Billy,  5  yrs.,  by  Florizel, 

Col.  Richardson's  ch.  m.  Miss  Fortune,  5  yrs.,  by  Star,      ...        2         2 

Time — 1st  heat,  6m.  17|-  sec;  2d  heat,  6  m.,  2  sec. 
Friday,  Feb.  24.— Jockey  Club  Purse.— 2  Mile  Heats. 

R.  Singleton's  b.  c  Warsaw,  4  yrs.,  by  Potomac,        ....         1         1 
Glassoock  &  Edmington's  ch.  c.  John  Randolph,  3  yrs.,  by  Florizel,         2        2 

1816. — Monday,  Feb.  21. — Purse  $1,000. — Given  by  the  Proprietors 
of  the  Washington  Course. — Mile  Heats. — Best  3  in  5. 

Wm.  Wynn'sr  h.  Ringleader,  5  yrs.,  by  imported  Wonder,  1         11 

J.  B.  Richardson's  ch.  m.  Miss  Fortune,  6  yrs.,  by  Star,    ..000 
Col.  Dent's  ch.  g.  Rattler,  5  yrs.,  by  Gallatin,  ....         0        0        0 

Time — 1st  heat,  1  in.,  53  sec;  2d  heat,  Im.,  54^  sec;  3d  heat,  1  m..  57 
sec 

Wednesday,  Feb.  28. — Jockey  Club  Purse. — 4  Mile  Heats. — weight 
for  age. 

R.  Singleton's  ch.  h.  Little  Johnny,  5  yrs.,  by  Potomac,  . 
Col.  Richardson's  b.  f.  Lady  Jane,  4  yrs.,  by  Potomac,  . 
W.  Wynn's  g.  m.  Young  Favorite,  5  yrs.  by  Bedford, 

Time — 1st  heat,  8  m.,  31  sec;  2d  heat,  1  m.,  53  sec. 
Thursday,  Feb.  29. — Jockey  Club  Purse. — 3  Mile  Heats. — J.  E.  Mc- 
Pherson's  ch.  c.  Lycurgiis,  3  yrs..  by  Virginius,  beat  in  two  heats  Col. 
Richardson's  ch.  m.  Miss  Fortune,  6  yrs.,  by  Star ;  Mr.  Wynn's  r.  h. 
Ringleader,  5  yrs,  by  Wonder,  and  Mr.  Mulligan's  b.  f.  Peggy,  3  yrs,,  by 
Bell  Weather.     First  heat,  5m.,  57  sec;  second  heat,  6m..  11  sec 

Col,  McPherson  relinquished  his  claim  to  this  purse,  to  aid  in  defray- 
ing certain  expenses  incurred  by  the  Club — whereupon  the  following 
Resolution  was  passed :  "  That  the  members  of  the  Club  are  sensibly 
aware  of  the  liberality  and  delicacy  of  Mr.  McPherson,  in  appropriating, 
to  the  use  and  benefit  of  the  Club,  the  amount  of  the  purse  won  by  his 
horse  Lycurgus,  this  day ;  that  they  recognize,  with  the  greatest  gratifi- 
cation, and  with  peculiar  pleasure,  a  feeling  so  genuine  in  its  nature,  and 
so  eloquently  speaking  the  Sportsman  and  the  Gentleman 

Friday,  March  1. — Jockey  Club  Purse. — 2  Mile  Heats. — Colts  and 
Fillies. — Mr,  Wynn's  ch.  f.  Merino  Ewe,  4  yrs.,  by  Jack  Andrews,  beat 
Col.  Richardson's  ch.  c  Echpse,  3  yrs.,  by  Virginius ;  R,  Singleton's  b. 


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g.  Independence,  4  yrs.,  by  Sir  Archy,  and  Mr.  Sparrow's  b.  c.  Embargo, 
4  yrs.,  by  Bedford.  Eclipse  won  1st  heat  in  4.m;  16  sec;  Merino  Ewe 
the  2d  and  3d  heats,  in  3m.,  53  sec;  and  4  m.,  1  sec. 

1817. — Monday,  Feb.  24. — Colt  Stake. — 2  Mile  Heats. — Was  won, 
with  great  ease,  by  Mr.  Wynn's  noble  colt  Timoleon,  3  yrs.,  by  Sir  Ar- 
chy.  The  1st  heat  in  4  m. ;  2d  heat,  in  3m.,  49  sec  A  colt  of  Mr.  R. 
Singleton's  contended  for  both  heats.  Mr.  William  Taylor,  Mr.  James 
Sparrow  and  Mr.  English,  had  colts  in  this  stake,  but  withdrew  them. 

Tuesday^  Feb.  25. — Silver  Cup,  given  by  the  Proprietors  of  the  Wash- 
ington Course. — 2  Mile  Heats. — Free  to  All,  weight  for  age. 

Mr.  Wynn's  br.  f.  Lady  Lightfoot,  4  yrs.  by  Sir  Archy,  ..211 
Mr.  Watson's  br.  m.  Black  Eyed  Susan,  5  yrs.,  ...  4  3  2 
R.  Singleton's  b.  f.  Young  Lottery,  4  yrs.,  .  '  .  .  .  1  2  3 
J.  B  Ricbardson's  b.  m.  Lady  Jane,  5  years  ....  3  4  4 
D.  Roe's  b.  g.  Orlando,  4  yrs., dis. 

C.  Richardson's  b.  f.  Little  Witch,  and  Mr.  Brown's  Maria,  were  en- 
tered, but  withdrawn  before  starting. 

Time — 1st  heat,  3m.,  55  sec;  2d  heat,  3m.,  o& ;  3d  heat,  3m.,  59 
sec 

Wednesday,  Feh.  26.~Jockey  Club  Purse,  |1,000. — 4  Mile  Heats, 
weight  for  age. — Col.  J.  B.  Richardson's  famous  b.  m.  Transport,  4 
yrs.,  by  Virginius,  beat  R.  Singleton's  ch.  h.  Little  Johnny,  by  Potomac  ; 
Mr.  Wynn's  ch.  m.  Merino  Ewe,  5  yrs.,  by  Jack  Andrews  ;  P.  Brown's 
ch.  m.  Maria,  Thomas  Watson's  ch.  h.  Director ;  E.  Green's  b.  g.  ^o- 
lus;  B.  Ferrell's  b.  m.  Fanny.  First  heat,  7  m.,  54  sec;  second  heat, 
Vm.,  58  sec. 

Thursday,  Feh.  27.  — Jockey  Club  Purse,  $600.-3  Mile  Heats, 
weight  for  age. — Wm.  Wynn's  ch.  c  Timoleon,  3  yrs.,  by  Sir  Archy, 
beat  R.  Singleton's  b.  f.  Blank,  3  yrs.,  by  Sir  Archy  ;  Col.  J.  B.  Rich- 
ardson's ch.  c  Lycurgus,  4  yrs.,  by  Virginius;  Mr.  Watson's  br.  m.  Black 
Eyed  Susan,  5  yrs.;  0.  Ree's  b.  m.  Lady  Jane,  5  yrs.  First  heat,  5m., 
51-^  sec;  second  heat,  6  m.,  2  sec, 

Timoleon,  foaled  in  1813,  was  got  by  Sir  Archy;  his  dam,  by  im- 
ported Saltram.  He  was  bred  by  Mr.  Benjamin  Jones,  of  Greenville 
County,  in  Virginia,  and  is  esteemed  as  good  a  horse  as  ever  run.  He  is 
a  great  grand  son  of  English  Eclipse — very  few  horses  are  so  nearly  al- 
lied to  him — none  of  the  present  day,  nearer.  The  resemblance  between 
them,  in  color,  form,  size  and  powers,  to  judge  from  descriptions  that 
have  come  down  to  us,  are  deemed  very  remarkable. 

Friday,  Feh.  28. — Jockey  Club  Purse,  |400. — 2  Mile  Heats,  weight 
for  age. — Mr.  Wynn's  br.  f.  Lady  Lightfoot  beat  Col.  Richardson's  ch. 
c  Eclipse,  4  yrs.,  by  Virginius ;  Mr.  Green's  b.  g.  Bedford ;  R.  Single- 
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ton's  ch.  f.  Young  Lottery,  (bolted)  and  Mr.  Taylor's  ch.  c.  Playfair. 
First  heat,  3  m.,  56  sec;  second  heat,  3m.,  59  sec. 

Hitherto  in  this  Race  over  the  Washington  Course,  4  yr.  olds  have 
been  required  to  carry  106  lbs. — 3  yrs.,  94  lbs.  This  rule  is  now  abol- 
ished ;  so  that  in  future,  the  weights  on  this  day  will  be  the  same  as  in 
the  preceding  days  of  the  week — iiainelv,  for  4  yr.  olds  102  lbs.;  3  yrs. 
90 ;   2  yrs.  a  feather.     Fillies  and  geldings  allowed  3  lbs. 

Saturday,  March  \. — Handicap  Race. — 3  Mile  Heats. — Lady  Light- 
foot,  4  yrs.,  cariying  99  lbs.,  beat  J.  B.  Richardson's  renowned  b.  f. 
Transport,  4  yrs.,  99  lbs.;  R.  Singleton's  ch.  h.  Little  Johnny,  6  yrs.;  Mr. 
P.  Brown's  ch.  tti.  Maria,  and  Mr.  Wynn's  ch.  m.  Merino  Ewe.  First 
heat,  5  m.,  54  sec;  second  heat,  5  m.,  53  sec.  This  was  a  very  sporting 
affair,  and  a  remarkably  fine  race. 

Lady  Lightfoot,  in  this  week,  accomplished  the  unprecedented  triumph 
of  winning  three  days  out  of  four,  beating  some  of  the  best  horses  in 
the  State.  What  a  field,  for  instance,  was  that  on  the  last  day's  race, 
(Saturday,  March  1)  composed  of  the  famous  Transport,  Little  Johnny, 
Maria  and  Merino  Ewe.    No  horse  ever  achieved  as  much  in  one  week. 

The  following  tribute  was  paid  by  Gen.  Wynn  to  the  great  quaHties 
of  this  fine  mare  :  He  said,  "  of  all  the  nags  I  ever  saw,  she  was  the  sa- 
fest and  best  at  any  distance,  having  the  best  and  most  imiform  constitu- 
tion— being  very  fleet,  and  of  the  most  perfect  bottom." 

She  was  in  constant  training  from  three  years  old  to  eleven  years  of 
age.  By  a  computation  made  at  one  period  of  her  racing  career,  of  one 
hundred  and  ninety-one  miles  she  had  nm,  she  won  one  hundred  and  fif- 
ty-nine miles. 

1818. — In  consequence  of  Thursday  being  set  apart  as  a  day  of  Hu- 
miliation and  Prayer,  there  was  no  Race  this  year  on  that  day.  The 
Races,  therefore,  were  ordered  to  commence  on  Tuesday,  and  continue 
on  Wednesday,  Friday  and  Saturday. 

Tuesday,  Feb.  2. — Jockey  Club  Purse,  |850. — 4  Mile  Heats,  weight 
for  age. 

R.  Singleton's  br.  f.  Blank,  4  yrs.,  by  Sir  Archy,       ....  1  1 

R.  Johnson's  m.  Lady  Richmond,  4  yrs.,  by  Eagle,    ....  2  dis. 
First  heat,  8m.  31  sec;  second  heat,  8m.,  30  sec. 

Wednesday,  Feh.  3. — Jockey  Club  Purse,  |>600,  weight  for  age. — 
3  Mile  Heats. 

J.  B.  Richardson's  b  m.  Transport,  5  yrs.,  by  Vijginius,          .        .  1  w'd  over. 

R.  Singleton's  ch.f.  Cynisca,  4  yrs.,  by  Hephestion,  .         .         .        .  2  dr. 

Timoleon  was  entered,  but  did  not  start.     Time — 1st  heat,  6  m . 
Friday,  Feh.  5. — Jockey  Club  Purse,  |400,  weight  for  age. — 2  Mile 

Heats. 

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Mr.  Johnson's  b.  g.  Kcaphook,  4  yrs.,  by  Sir  Archy,         ...         1         1 
Mr.  Rowe's  b.  f.  "Vanity,  4  yrs.,  by  Gallatin 2        2 

Mr.  Singleton's  ch.  o.  Kosciusko  was  entered,  but  did  not  start.  Time, 
1st  heat,  4  m.,  2d  heat,  4  m.,  1  sec. 

Saturday,  Feb.  6. — Handicap  Race. — 3  Mile  Heats. — J.  B.  Richard- 
son's b.  m.  Transport^  5  yrs.,  109  lbs.,  won  the  race.  The  celebrated 
Timoleon  started  ;  but  having  had  the  distemper  recently,  he  was  in  bad 
condition,  and  was  under  the  necessity  of  being  stopped.  This,  and  the 
race  Reality  beat  him,  (he  beat  her  afterwards)  it  is  said,  were  the  only 
two  races  Timoleon  lost.  During  his  brilliant  career,  he  not  only  met 
and  conquered  some  of  the  best  horses  in  Virginia  and  South  Carolina, 
but  made  the  best  time  of  modern  days.  In  a  notice  of  him  in  the  Turf 
Register,  it  is  stated  that  the  spring  he  was  three  years  old,  he  ran  the 
mile  at  Petersburg  in  1  ra.,  4Y  sec;  and  that  fall,  the  two  miles  in  3m., 
49  sec;  3  m.,  47  sec,  and  3  m.,  48  sec  It  appears,  by  computation, 
that  in  the  fabulous  (as  it  has  been  thought)  exploit  of  "  Flying  Chil- 
ders,  in  his  fastest  race,  he  was  moving  at  the  rate  of  a  mile  in  1  m.,  42 
sec." — but  four  seconds  faster  that  Timoleon's  unquestionable  time  in  an 
undoubted  mile.  $5,000  was  refused  for  him  the  spring  h--  was  four 
years  old.  The  veteran  Wynn  believed  Timoleon  to  be  "superior  to  any 
horse  that  ever  ran  on  any  course  in  the  United  States*"  In  the  words  of 
Wm.  R.  Johnson,  Esq.,  who  had  seen  him  run  all  his  faces  in  Virginia, 
"  his  performances,  from  one  to  four  mile  heats,  have  been  such  as  would 
do  credit  to  the  best  runner  in  either  this  country,  or  Europe  ;  and  his 
style  of  going  is  the  most  superior  action.  His  size  and  blood  entitle 
him  to  rank  first  rate  as  a  stallion." 

Of  his  pedigree,  we  will  merely  remark  that,  besides  being  "  the  best 
son  of  Sir  Archy,"  his  dam  was  by  imported  Saltram  ;  not  only  one  of 
the  best  racing  sons  of  the  unrivalled  Eclipse — almost  the  only  victor 
over  Dungannon  and  Phenomenon — but,  in  England,  the  sire  of  Whis- 
key, the  best  horse  of  his  day — the  siie  of  the  renowned  Eleanor;  and 
in  this  country,  the  sire,  also,  of  Sir  Hal's  dam,  to  whom  he  may  chiefly 
owe  his  racing  celebrity.  (Saltram,  by  Eclipse  ;  dam  Virago,  by  Snap ; 
Regulus.)  Timoleon's  grand  dam  was  by  "  Wildair,  the  best  son  of 
Fearnought,  out  of  a  Jolly  Roger." 

1819. —  Wednesday,  Feb.  2. — Jockey  Club  Purse,  $1,000,— 4  Mile 
Heats,  weight  for  age.  Geo.  F.  Randolph's  br.  m.  Blank,  5  yrs,,  by  Sir 
Archy,  beat  Mr.  Richardson's  ch.  g.  Young  Timoleon,  4  yrs,,  by  Sir 
Archy. 

Thursday,  Feb.  3, — Jockey  Club  Purse,  $750. — 3  Mile  Heats,  weight 


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for  age.  R.  Singleton's  ch.  c.  Kosciusko,  4  yrs.,  by  Sir  Archy,  beat  Mr. 
Richardson's  ch.  c.  Mark  Anthony,  4  yrs.,  by  Hephestion. 

Friday/,  Feb.  4. — Jockey  Club  Purse,  ^500. — 2  Mile  Heats,  weight 
for  age.  No  horse  allowed  to  start  that  is  not  under  5  years.  Mr. 
Richardson's  gr.  f.  Favorite,  3  yrs.,  by  Florizel,  beat  Mr.  Randolph's  b. 
f.  Village  Maid,  4  yrs.,  by  Bedford,  and  Mr.  Richardson's  br.  g.  Robin- 
son, 3  yrs.,  by  Rossicuiciun. 

Saturdmj,  Feb.  5. — Grold  Cup,  value  $500. — Handicap  Race,  3  Mile 
Heats. — R.  Singleton's  ch.  c.  Kosciusko,  4  yrs.,  carrying  102  lbs.,  beat 
Mr.  Richardson's  ch.  h.  Mark  Anthony,  by  Hephestion. 

\%20.— Wednesday,  Feb.  2.— Jockey  Club  Purse,  |1,000.— 4  Mile 
Pleats,  weight  for  age. 

Mr.  Wynn's  ch.  c.  Rattler,  4  yrs.,  by  Sir  Archy,      ....         1         1 
R.  Singleton's  ch.  h.  Kosciusko,  5  yrs.,  by  Sir  Archy,       ...        2         2 

Time — 8  ni.  11-^;  2d  heat,  8  m.  38  sec. 

Thursday,  Feb.  3. — ^Jockey  Club  Purse,  $510.70. — 3  Mile  Heats. — 
Mr.  Singleton's  ch.  f.  Sylph,  3  yrs.,  by  Hephestion,  beat  Mr.  Wynn's 
ch.  g.  Eclipse,  5  yrs.,  by  Sir  Archy.  1st  heat,  6  m.  20  sec. ,  2d  heat,  6 
m.  20  sec. 

Friday,  Feb.  4. — Jockey  Club  Purse,  $325. — 2  Mile  Heats. — Mr. 
Wynn's  b.  f.  Beggar  Girl,  4  yrs.,  by  Sir  Archy,  beat  Mr.  Singleton's  g. 
c.  Envoy,  3  yrs.,  by  Hephestion,  and  Mr.  Richardson's  ch.  g.  Corvisart, 
3  yrs.,  by  Virginius.  An  exceedingly  fine  race.  Envoy  won  the  1st 
heat  in  3  m.  57^;  Beggar  Girl  the  2d  heat  in  3  m.  57^,  and  also  the 
3d  heat  in  4  m.  2  sec.  No  horse  allowed  to  start  -that  is  not  under 
5  years. 

Saturday,  Feb.  o. — Gold  Cup,  $500. — 3  Mile  Heats,  Handicap  Race. 
Beggar  Girl,  4  yrs.,  99  lbs.,  beat  ch.  f.  Sylph,  3  yrs.,  87  lbs.  The  heats 
were  broken,  and  handsomely  contested. 

Kosciusko  was  in  no  condition  to  make  a  good  race  on  Wednesday : 
he  was  too  fat.  So  little  satisfied  was  Col.  Singleton  with  the  result, 
that  he  sent  Kos<;iusko  to  Virginia,  to  give  his  sporting  friends  there  a 
taste  of  his  quality.  Contending  in  a  race  of  4  mile  heats  with  Reality, 
Contention  and  Napoleon,  at  New  Market,  he  broke  down.  He  was 
ahead  at  the  time  the  accident  occurred.  He  was  brought  home,  and 
stood  some  seasons  in  South  Carolina,  where  he  got  some  racers  of  the 
first  class,  among  others  Multiflora,  and  Clara  Fisher.  He  was  ulti- 
mately sent  to  the  West. 

1821. —  Wednesday,  Feb.  7. — Jockey  Club  Purse,  $1,000. — 4  Mile 
Heats. — Mr.  West's  ch.  c.  Shawnee,  4  yrs.,  by  Tecumseh,  beat  Mr. 
Spann's  ch.  g.  Coi-visart,  4  yrs.,  by  Virginius,  Mr.  Watson's  ch.  h.  Con- 


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tention,  and  Mr.  Singleton's  gr.  c.  Ganymede,  4  yrs.,  by  Hephestion. 
Contention  won  the  first  heat  in  8  m.  27  see.  The  second  and  third 
heats  were  won  by  Shawnee,  in  8  m.  8  sec,  and  8  ra.  29  sec,  weight 
for  age. 

Thursday,  Feb.  8. — Jockey  Club  Purse,  1700. — 3  Mile  Heats,  weight 
for  age. — T.  D.  Watson's  ch.  c.  Sir  Charles,  4  yrs.,  by  Sir  Archy,  beat 
Mr.  West's  b.  c  Sir  Payton,  4  yrs.,  by  Tecumseh,,  Mr.  Spann's  b.  m. 
Transport,  aged,  by  Virginius,  Mr.  Singleton's  cli.  f.  Sylph,  4  yrs.,  by 
Hephestion,  and  Mr.  Dingle's  Rosinante,  by  Virginius.  Time — 6  m.  6 
eec;  2d  heat,  6  m.  13  sec. 

Friday,  Feb.  9.— Jockey  Club  Purse,  |500.— 2  Mile  Heats.— Mr. 
Wynn's  ch.  c.  Flying  Childers,  3  yrs.,  by  Sir  Archy,  beat  Mr.  Spann's 
b.  f.  Virginia,  3  yrs.,  by  Sir  Archy,  Mr.  Chas.  Richardson's  ch.  f.  Gold- 
finder,  3  yrs.,  by  Virginius,  Col-.  Richardson's  ch.  g.  Stride,  4  yrs.,  by 
Virginius,  and  Col.  Hampton's  ch.  f.  Young  Peggy,  3  yrs.,  by  Hephes- 
tion. No  horse  allowed  to  start  that  was  not  under  five  years,  weight 
for  age. 

Saturday,  Feb.  10.— The  Gold  Cup.  value  $500.— A  race  of  3  Mile 
Heats  was  won  by  Mr.  Wynn's  ch.  c,  Flyiny  Childers,  beating  Mr. 
Singleton's  gr.  c.  Ganymede,  4  yrs.,  by  Hephestion,  Mr.  Watson's  ch.  c. 
Sir  Charles,  4  years,  by  Sir  Archy,  Mr.  Spann's  ch.  g.  Corvisart,  4 
yrs.,  by  Virginius,  and  Col.  Richardson's  b.  g.  Ploughboy,  4  yrs.,  by 
Virginius.     1st  heat,  5  m.  53  sec.  ;  2d  heat,  5  ra.  58  sec 

19>22.--Wednesday,  Feb.  6.— Jockey  Club  Purse,  $488.-4  Mile 
Heats,  weight  for  age. 

R.  Singleton's  b.  f.  Maria,  3  yrs., 1  -  I 

Col.  Richardson's  ch.  g.  Corvisart,  5  yrs..          ....  -  1  - 

Mr.  West's  b.  c.  Shawnee,  4  yrs.,  by  Tecumsch,        ...  -  2  - 

Capt.  Spann's  b.  f.  Virginia,  4  yrs.,  by  Sir  Archy,  .  .  fell. 

Time — 1st  heat,  8  m.  22  sec.  ;  2d  heat,  8  m.  23  sec  ;  3d  heat,  8  m. 
29  sec.     The  Course  was  unusually  heavy  from  recent  rain. 

The  winner,  Maria,  or,  as  sometimes  called,  Duck  Filly,  was  bred 
by  Col.  Singleton,  and  got  by  Virginius,  out  of  Sally,  by  Imp.  Buzzard, 
grand  dam  Roxana,  by  Imp.  Marplot.  She  was  sold  to  the  late  John 
C.  McRae,  of  Camden,  subsequent  to  this  race,  and  at  his  death  passed 
into  the  possession  of  Mr.  John  M.  Huger.  She  had  produ(;e  by  Cru- 
sader, and  Godolphin.  V>y  Crusader,  a  ch.  f  Maid  of  Perth,  and  ch.  c 
in  1833,  and  a  bay  colt,  1835,  by  Godolphin.  She  was  then  put  to 
Argyle. 

Thursday,  Feb.  7. — Jockey  Club  Purse,  $368. — 3'Mile  Heats,  weight 
for  age.     Mr.  Wynn's  ch.  h.  Sir  William,   5  yrs.,  by  Sir  Archy,  beat 


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Col.  Richardson's  ch.  f.  Goldfinder,  4  yrs.,  by  Virginius,  Mr.  West's  b, 

f.  Sally   Alston,   5  yrs.,  by  Gallatin,  and  Capt.  Spann's  ch.  f,  Irvina,  3 
yrs.,  by  Virginius.      Time — 1st  heat,  6  m.  30  sec.  ;  2d  heat,  6  m.  5  sec. 

Friday,  Feb.  8. — Jockey  Club  Eurse,  §240. — 2  Mile  Heats,  weight 
for  age.  Mr.  Spann's  br.  f.  Betsey  Richards,  3  yrs.,  by  Sir  Archy,  beat 
Mr.  West's  br.  c.  Van  Tronip,  3  yrs.,  by  Sir  Hal,  Mr.  Wynn's  b.  f. 
Dutchess  of  Marlborough,  4  yrs.,  by  Sir  Archy,  and  Col.  Richardson's 
ch.  f.  Desdemona,  3  yrs.,  by  Virginius.  No  horse  allowed  io  start  that 
was  not  under  5  years. 

Saturday,  Feb.  9. — Handicap  Race,  3  Mile  Heats. — A  Silver  Cup, 
the  value  of  |500.  Mr.  Wynn's  ch.  h.  Sir  William,  5  yrs.,  handicap'd 
to  carry  112  lbs.,  beat  Mr.  West's  ch.  c.  Shawnee,  4  yrs.,  by  Tecumseh, 
102  lbs.,  and  Capt.  Spann's  b.  f.  Virginia,  4  yrs.,  by  Sir  Archy. 

1823. —  Wednesday,  Feb.  12. — Jockey  Club  Purse,  !^670. — 4  Mile 
Heats,  weight  for  age.  Col.  Spann's  ch.  c.  Sumpter,  4  yrs.,  by  Sir 
Archy,  beat  Mr.  Singleton's  b.  f.  Pocahontas,  3  yrs.,  by  Sir  Archy.  Time 
— 1st  heat,  8  m.  10  sec.  ;  2d  heat,  slow. 

Thursday,  Feb.  13. — Jockey  Club  Purse,  $502. — 3  mile  heats, 
weight  for  age. — Mr.  Wynn's  ch.  h.  Flying  Childers,  5  yrs.,  by  Sir 
Archy,  beat  Mr.  Spann's  b.  m.  Virginia,  5  yrs.,  by  Sir  Archy,  and  Col. 
Richardson's  ch.  g,  Corvisart,  6  yrs.,  by  Virginius.  1st  heat,  6  m. ;  2d 
heat,  5  m.  59  sec. 

Friday,  Feb.  14. — Jockey  Club  Puise,  |335. — 2  mile  heats. — Mr. 
Spann's  b.  f.  Betsey  Richards,  4  yrs.,  by  Sir  Archy,  beat  Mr.  Wynn's 
ch.  f.  Princess,  4  yrs.,  by  Sir  Archy,  and  Col.  Richardson's  b.  c.  Leonidas, 
4  yrs.,  by  Virginius.  1st  heat,  3  ra.  56  sec;  2d  heat,  4  m.  1  sec.  ; 
weight  for  age.     No  horse  allowed  to  start  that  was  not  under  5  years. 

Saturday,  Feb.  15. — Handicap  Purse,  $330. — 3  mile  heats. — Mr. 
Wynn's  ch.  li.  Flying  Childers,  5  yrs.,  carrying  112  lbs.,  beat  Mr. 
Spann's  b.  f.  Betsey  Richards,  4  yrs.,  99  lbs.,  and  Col.  Richardson's  ch. 

g.  Corvisart,  6  yrs.,  107  lbs. 

1824. — Monday,  Feb.  23. — In  a  stake  of  $200,  subscription,  Ber- 
trand  received  forfeit  from  Gen.  Wynn's  Flirtilla,  Col.  Singleton's  Mark 
Time,  Mr.  Richardson's  William,  and  beat  Mr.  Singleton's  Cherokee. 

Tuesday,  Feb.  24. — Jockey  Club  Purse. — Receipts  of  the  gate-money 
on  Monday,  added  to  an  entrance  of  $50.  Mile  heats.  Best  3  in  5, 
weiglit  for  age,  was  won  by  Maria,  the  Duck  filly,  in  7  heats,  beating, 
Bull-Driver,  (who  took  the  first  heat,)  Tyro,  (who  ran  a  dead  heat  with 
him  the  third  heat,  and  won  the  fourth  heat,)  and  several  others.  Maria 
won  the  three  last  heats. 

Wednesday,    Feb.  25. — Jockey    Club  Purse,    $760. — 4    mile  heats, 


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weight  for  age. — Col.  Spann's  b.  c.  Bertrand,  3  yrs.,  by  Sir  Archy, 
beat  in  two  heats  Mr.  Richardson's  ch.  c,  William,  3  yrs.  by  Sir  Archy, 
Mr.  Singleton's  br.  m.  Pocahontas,  4  yrs.,  by  Sir  Archy,  and  Mr.  Bacon's 
b.  m.  Maria,  5  yrs.,  by  Virginius.  First  heat,  8  ra,  1  sec ;  2d  heat,  8 
m.  11  sec. 

Thursday,  Feb.  26. — Jockey  Club  Purse,  $570, — 3  mile  heats, 
weight  for  age. 

R.  Singleton's  gr.  g.  Mark  Time,  3  yrs.,  by  Gallatin,  -  -  -  1  1 
Mr.  Spann's  ch.  c.  Tyro,  4  yrs.,  by  Constitution,      -         -        -         -         2        2 

1st  heat,  6  m.  5  sec. ;  2d  heat,  6  m.  25  sec. 

Friday,  Feb.  27. — Jockey  Club  Purse,  $380. — 2  mile  heats,  weight 
for  age.  No  horse  allowed  to  start  that  is  not  under  5  years. — R. 
Singleton's  b.  f.  Pocahontas,  4  yrs.,  by  Sir  Archy,  beat  .Mr.  Fitzsimons' 
b.  c.  Cherokee,  3  yrs.,  by  Sir  Archy,  CoK  Richardson's  b.  c.  Sir  Richard , 

3  yrs,,  by  Sir  Archy,  Mr.  Wynn's  Vanity,  3  yrs.,  by  Herod,  and  Mr. 
Mill's  f.  Lalla  Rookh,  3  yrs.,  by  Young  Whip. 

Saturday,  Feb.  28. — Handicap  Purse,  $370. — 3  mile  heats.-Col. 
Spann's  b.  c.  Bertrand,  3  yrs.,  by  Sir  Archy,  carrying  90  lbs.,  beat  Col. 
Singleton's  b.  f.  Pocahontas,  4  yrs.,  90  lbs.,  Mr.  Bacon's  gr.  g.  Mark 
Time,  3  yrs.,  87  lbs.,  and  Mr.  Richardson's  William,  3  yrs.,  90  lbs,  1st 
heat  run  in  5  m,  56  sec. ;  2d  heat,  6  m.  5  sec. 

1825. —  Wednesday,  Feb.  23. — Jockey  Club  Purse,  $835. — 4  mile 
heats,  free  to  all  ages.     Aged  horses,  126  lbs. ;  6  yrs.,  120  ;  5  yrs.,  112  ; 

4  yrs.,  102  ;  3  yrs.,  90  ;  2  yrs.,  a  feather.  Mares,  fillies  and  geldings 
allowed  3  lbs. 

Capt.  Spann's  b.  h.  Bertrand,  4  yrs.,  by  Sir  Archy.  -        -         1  walked  over. 

Capt.  Harrison's  Creeping  Kate.  4  yrs.,  by  Sir  Archy,    -        -        0        dr. 
Capt.  Richardson's  Blucher,  4  yrs.,  by  Sir  Archy,    -         -        -        0        dr. 

Time — 1st  heat,  7  m.  47  sec. 

Thursday,  Feb.  24. — Jockey  Club  Purse,  $625. — 3  mile  heats. — Con- 
ditions as  before. 

Mr.  Moore's  Fairfield-,  3  yrs.,  by  Virginius,  -----  1  1 
Mr.  Richardson's  William,  4  yrs.,  by  Sir  Archy,     -        -        -        -        2        2 

Time — 1st  heat,  5  m.  54  sec. ;  2d  heat,  6  m.  3|. 
Friday,  Feb.  25. — Jockey  Club  Purse,  |420. — 2   mile  heats;  weights 
as  before. 

R.  Singleton's  Aggy,  3  yrs.,  by  Sir  Archy,  -  -  -  -  3  1  1 
Col.  Spann's  Cherokee,  4  yrs.,  by  Sir  Archy,  -  -  -  -  1  2  2 
Mr.  MUls'  Phenomenon,  3  yrs.,  by  Sir  Archy,        -        -        -        2        3        3 

Time — 1st  heat,  3  m.  52  sec;  2d  heat,  4  m.  \^;  3d  heat,  4  m.  4 
sec.     No  horse  allowed  to  start  that  was  not  under  5  years. 


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Saturday,  Feb.  26. — Handicap  Purse,  $485. — 3  mile  heats. 

Mr.  Moore's  Fairfield,  3    yrs.,  by  Virginius,  carrying  87  lbs.,  1       -       -       1 

Col  Spann's  b.  h.Bertrand,  4  yrs.,  by  Sir  Archy,  102  lbs.,  2      2      12 

Capt.  Harrison's  Creeping  Kate,  4  yrs,  by  Sir  Archy,  95  lbs.,  -       1      2       - 

Mr.  Richardson's  William,  4  yrs.,  by  Sir  Archy,  98  lbs.,  .       .      -       . 

R.  Singleton's  Aggy,  3  yrs.,  by  Sir  Archy,  87   lbs.,  .... 

Time — 1st  heat,  6  m. ;  2d  heat,  6  ra.  4  sec. ;  3d  heat,  5  m.  48| ;  4th 
heat,  5  m.  54  sec. 

This  was  a  great  race  on  the  part  of  Bertrand,  and  will  be  memor- 
able for  all  time  to  come.  The  following  facts,  without  extended  com" 
ment,  will  speak  for  themselves,  and  show  how  Bertrand,  single-handed, 
unaided  and  alone,  contended  against  the  field.  The  1st  heat  was  won 
by  Fairfield,  Kate  dropping  just  within  the  distance.  Kate  went  for 
the  second  heat,  which  she  won,  Fairfield  this  time  just  dropping  within 
the  distance.  The  3d  heat,  Creeping  Kate  made  play  again,  and,  hav- 
ing plenty  of  foot,  was  with  difficulty  locked  by  Bertrand;  after  a  severe 
struggle,  however,  he  beat  her  out  in  the  fine  time  of  5  m.  48^;  Fair- 
field ^  again,  as  before,  just  dropping  within  the  distance.  The  4th 
heat  was  won  by  Fairfield,  after  having  rested  the  two  previous  heats, 
though  not  without  being  closely  pressed  by  Bertrand,  who  gallantly 
contended  to  the  end.  ' 

1826. — Tuesday,  Feb.   21. — Mr,  Harrison's    Creeping  Kate,  5  yrs., 

won  a  race  of  2  mile  heats,  beating   Mr.  Cooper's  Potomac,  and  a  colt 

entered  by  Mr.  Allen. 

Wednesday,  Feb.  22. — Jockey  Club  Purse,  $577.61. — 4  mile  heats. 

Free  to  all  ages  ;  weight  for  age. 

Capt.  Spann's  b.  h.  Bertrand,  5  yrs.,  by  Sir  Archy,  out  of  Eliza,   by 

Bedford, 11 

Mr.  J.  J.  Harrison's  ch.  f.  Lady  Le  Grange,  3  yrs,  by  Sir  Archy,     -        2        dr. 

Thursday,  Feb.  23. — Jockey  Club  Purse,  $433.20. — 3  mile  heats. 
Conditions  as  before. 

Mr.  J,  J.  Harrison's  br.  h.  Aratus,  5  yrs.,  by  Director,  -  -  -  1  I 
Col.  Spann's  b.  h.  William,  5  yrs.  old,  by  Sir  Archy,  -  -  -  2  2 
R.  Singleton's  b.  h.  Saxe  Weimar,  4  yrs.,  by  Sir  Archy,         -        -        3        dr. 

Time — 1st  heat,  5  m.  54  .sec.  ;  2d  heat,  5  m,  46  sec. 

[Note. — Saxe  Weimar,  full  brother  of  Kosciusko  and  Crusader,  was 
a  fine  looking  horse,  16  hands  2  inches  high,  arit-h  deep  bay,  legs  black 
above  the  knees,  with  rings  of  white  between  the  hinder  ankles  and 
feet ;  he  was  excellent  in  all  the  points  that  indicate  the  real  courser, 
though  he  did  not  distinguish  himself  on  our  Course.  He  was  sent  to 
Tennessee,  and  stood  in  1834  at  the  stable  of  Mr.  H.  M.  Crier,  two 
miles  west  of  Gallatin,  Tenn.] 


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Friday,  Feb.  24. — Jockey  Club  Purse,  $288.81. — 2  mile  heats. 
Weights  the  same.  Col.  Spann's  b.  'c.  Seagull^  4  yrs.,  by  Sir  Archy, 
beat  Mr.  Singleton's  b.  f.  Juliet,  3  yrs.,  by  Kosciusko,  and  Mr.  J.  J. 
Harrison's  ch.  c.  Frantic,  3  yrs.,  by  Director.  This  was  a  race  of  in- 
tense interest  throughout.  There  were  four  heats  before  the  race 
•was  decided ;  each  of  them  run  under  whip  and  spur.  Seagull  won 
the  first  heat  in  3  m.  52  sec ;  Frantic  took  the  second  heat  in  3 
m.  50  sec. ;  Juliet  won  the  third  heat  in  3  m.  51^  sec.  Then  came 
the  deciding  heat,  which  was  a  beautiful  trial  of  speed  and  bottom 
between  the  three.  It  was  finally  won  by  Seagull,  in  3  m.  57^  sec. 
No  horse  allowed  to  start  that  was  not  under  5  years. 

Same  day. — Second  Race. — Jockey  Club  Purse. — 2  mile  heats. 
Feather  weights.  Mr.  Litle's  b.  h.  Shylock  beat  Mr.  Cooper's  h. 
Stride,  and  Mr.  Harrison's  Susan,  3  heats.  Time — 1st  heat,  3  ra.  50 
sec. ;  2d  heat,  3  m.  52|- ;  3d  heat,  3  ra.  57^. 

Saturday,  Feb.  25. — Handicap  Race. — 3  mile  heats, — As  this  is 
one  of  the  most  gallant  races  that  has  been  run  in  our  country  up 
to  this  time,  we  insert  here  "a  full,  true,  and  particular  account," 
which  was  published  in  the  New  York  Sporting  Magazine,  March, 
1833.  It  is  decidedly  the  best  account  of  the  race  that  we  have  seen, 
"  take  it  for  all  in  all ;"  but  reviewing  the  original  report,  as  we 
are  now  doing,  after  the  lapse  of  years,  by  curtailing  it  a  little  here 
and  there,  we  think  we  have  succeeded  in  toneing  down  the  article 
somewhat,  without  injuring  any  of  its  life  and  spirit. 

We  recollect  the  race  well  ;  who  is  there,  whose  good  fortune  it 
was  to  witness  it — "  who  is  there,  with  soul  so  dead  "■  as  to  forget  it  ? 
It  was  a  glorious  sight,  to  see  the  style  in  which  Bertrand,  after 
having  contended  for  every  heat,  answered  to  the  call  made  upon 
him  by  his  jockey  in  the  last  quarter,  and  though  almost  fainting 
from  desperate  distress,  coming  again,  with  genuine  pluck,  like  one 
of  the  "  right  sort,"  as  he  was,  and  with  an  almost  electric  burst  of 
speed,  collaring  his  gallant  antagonist,  and  beating  him  on  the  post 
by  half  a  neck  1  It  was  a  brilliant  finish,  "  a  glorious  sight,  indeed, 
to  see !" 

GREAT    RACE    AT    CHARLESTON,    S.   C,    FEB.,  1826. 

The  Annual  Races  over  the  Washington  Course,  Charleston,  South 
Carolina,  ended  on  Saturday,  February  25,  1826,  with  a  Handicap 
Purse,  three  mile  heats.  The  horses  named  to  the  Stewards,  as  compe- 
titors, were — 


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Col.  Spann^sh.h.  Bertrand,hy  Sir  Archy,  5  yrs,  old,  handicapped, 
112  lbs. 

Mr.  Davenport's  br.  b.  Aratus,  by  Director,  5  yrs.  old,  112  lbs. 

Capt.  J.  J.  Harrison's  Creeping  Kate,  by  Sir  Archy,  5  years  old, 
109  lbs. 

Aratus  and  Creeping  Kate  were  both  trained  by,  and  from  the  stable 
of  Mr.  J.  J.  Harrison,  of  Virginia.  Bertrand  had  that  week  won  the 
purse,  4  mile  heats ;  Aratus,  that  of  3  mile  heats,  and  Creeping  Kate 
the  Sweepstakes. 

Col.  Spann,  in  consequence  of  both  his  opponents  being  under  the 
control  of  Capt.  Harrison,  had  decided  not  to  run  his  horse  ;  and  it 
was  at  one  time  expected  there  would  be  no  race ;  upon  which,  Capt. 
Harrison  agreed  to  draw  one  of  his  horses;  whereupon  Col.  Spann,  not 
to  be  outdone  in  courtesy,  consented  that  they  should  both  run,  although 
he  saw  the  disadvantage  he  labored  under.  This  being  made  known, 
all  was  alacrity.  .  In  the  betting  ring,  it  was  even,  Bertrand  against 
the  field,  and  taken  freely  ;  a  good  deal  was  done  in  this  way,  among 
the  "  business  men.'''' 

At  the  call,  they  all  appeared,  and  stripped  in  fine  condition.  The 
order  being  given,  "  Mount,"  the  boys  were  up ;  all  was  breathless 
anxiety.  At  the  word,  they  went  off  well  together  ;  Aratus,  in  the  first 
quarter,  took  the  track,  Bertrand  keeping  close  up,  Kate  falling  back. 
It  soon  became  evident  that  Aratus  was  to  "  cut  the  ivork  out^''  while 
Kate  "  waited  wpon  tliemr  In  this  way,  they  went  along  at  a  telling 
pace,  Aratus  leading  in  gallant  style;  about  the  middle  of  the  second 
round,  Bertrand  "  chcdlenged^''  and  a  struggle  for  the  lead  was  had  for 
two  or  three  hundred  yards ;  Aratus,  however,  was  not  to  be  headed, 
and  held  his  place,  after  a  sharp  burst ;  Kate,  all  this  time,  something 
more  than  half  a  distance  behind.  Aratus  kept  his  rate  under  a  steady 
pull,  Bertrand  close  upon  him,  ready  to  profit  by  any  error  or  mishap; 
they  kept  it  up  steadily  at  a  racing  pace,  until  they  had  rounded  the 
first  sweep  in  the  last  mile  ;  here  Bertrand  again  challenged,  and  made 
severe  running,  but  it  would  not  do,  Aratus  kept  the  track — was 
"  pulled  well  together,"  at  the  turn,  and  came  handsomely  round  ;  Ber- 
trand again,  gallantly  "  made  play"  for  the  rally  home ;  it  was  "  go 
along,"  every  yard — Aratus  has  it  by  half  a  neck,  Kate  dropping  within 
the  distance. 

Time — 5  min.  48  sec. 

Confidence  in  Bertrand  was  now  shaken — Aratus  against  Bertrand 
was  freely  offered  and  taken. 


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Second  Heat. — At  the  summons,  they  all  appeared  undaunted  ;  Ara- 
tus  had  the  pole,  Bertrand  next,  and  Kate  outside.  They  went  away  at 
a  rattling  pace  ;  Aratus  on  the  lead,  was  soon  taken  in  hand  ;  Kate,  in 
the  first  round,  now  went  up,  and  "  made  play,"  came  in  front,  and  went 
awav  at  a  tell-tale  rate,  Bertrand  waiting  upon  her,  Aratus  trailing ;  Kate 
kept  it  up  the  remainder  of  this  and  during  the  second  round,  Bertrand 
close  upon  her,  Aratus  (not  running  for  the  heat)  lay  back.  As  they 
went  down  the  back  part  of  the  course,  in  the  third  round,  Bertrand's  ri- 
der received  instructions  to  give  away  the  heat — upon  which,  lie  took  a 
pull  at  his  horse,  and  fell  back.  As  soon  as  Bertrand  was  pulled,  Kate 
was,  also,  taken  in  hand.  The  rider  of  Bertrand  seeing  which,  and 
aware  that  this  management  could  be  productive  of  no  benefit,  (except 
that  of  a  fourth  heat,)  with  more  judgment  than  his  instructor,  aban- 
doned his  intention,  stole  up,  and  made  a  dash  for  the  lead ;  but  Kate 
went  away  at  a  "  killing  pace^''  keeping  Bertrand  at  work  upon  her  off 
quarter.  Bertrand  made  severe  running  round  the  turn,  but  Kate  had 
the  iDole.  As  they  entered  upon  the  quarter  stretch,  Bei'trand's  rider 
went  resolutely  to  work,  clapped  "  the  persuaders''''  to  him,  at  the  same 
moment  "  let  out,''''  but  not  in  time  to  overtake  his  nimble  footed  oppo- 
nent, who  passed  under  the  string  by  half  a  length  before  him — Aratus 
just  came  within  the  distance.     Time — 5  m.,  47  sec. 

Great  consternation  now  appeared  among  the  backers  of  Bertrand.  The 
odds  after  this  heat  were  four  to  three,  the  field  against  him,  and  much 
excitement  existed.  After  the  usual  lapse  of  time,  the  call  for  the  horses 
sounded — all  three  appeared,  prepared  to  renew  the  contest ;  Kate  inside 
Bertrand  next,  and  Aratus  outside.  The  order  was  heard,  "  come  up," 
and  almost  instantly,  the  signal  for  the  start  resounded.  They  got  off" 
cleverly  together ;  Kate  leading  under  a  hard  pull,  followed  closely  by 
Bertrand  ;  Aratus  trailing,  as  in  the  last  heat.  In  the  first  round,  Bertrand 
"  made  play  ;"  Creeping  Kate  was  pulled  back,  and  the  horse  went  in 
fi'ont.  All  was  staked  upon  this  heat ;  the  great  speed  of  Kate  being 
manifest,  Bertrand's  only  chance  was  '■'■  gatne^^  and  '■'■stoutness  ;"  he  went 
away  at  a  killing  pace,  Kate  lying  closely  by  him;  in  the  third  round, 
going  down  the  back  stretch,  Kate  made  a  push  for  the  turn,  and  severe 
running  ensued  ;  but  it  would  not  do,  Bertrand  was  well  laid  in  for  it ; 
they  swept  round  in  gallant  style,  both  going  "  the  pace ;"  Bertrand 
kept  it  up — a  sharp  rally  took  place  up  the  stretch  ;  but  the  length  had 
told  upon  the  mare,  and  Bertrand  came  in  about  eight  k^i  in  front — 
Aratus  again  dropped  within  the  distance.     Time — 5  m.,  52  sec. 

Each  had  now  taken  a  heat,  the  fourth,  and  that  which  was  to  decide 
the  contest,  was  now  to  be  run.     Aratus  had  been  nursed  during  the  two 


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last,  while  Bertrand  had  contested  every  inch  ;  the  trial  was  severe,  and 
one  calculated  to  put  game  to  the  test.  The  time  for  rubbing  down  hav- 
ing expired,  and  the  call  made  for  the  horses,  Bertrand  and  Aratus 
only  appeared,  Kate  being  drawn.  It  was  now  evident  to  all,  that  this 
would  be  a  "  go  along"  heat ;"  "  blood  and  bottom"  was  to  decide  it.  At 
the  word,  the  boys  were  up,  Bertrand  had  the  pole  ;  the  signal  being 
given,  Aratus  made  a  run  for  the  lead,  and  succeeded  in  taking  the  track  i 
he  lead  off  fearlessly,  with  a  fine  rating  stride,  under  a  steady  pull,  with 
bold  Bertrand  in  his  track ;  thus  they  went  at  a  telling  pace  ;  the  first 
round,  when  past  the  first  sweep  of  the  second  mile,  Bertrand  went  up 
and  challenged  ;  they  were  now  locked,  and  a  severe  run  ensued  for  the 
turn.  Aratus,  having  "  taken  well  q^,"  made  it  handsomely,  hugged 
close  round,  and  went  along  full  of  running  ;  Bertrand  was  compelled  to 
"•  pull  to  him^''  and  drop  behind — away  went  Aratus,  "  and  away  went 
he,"  with  Bertrand  "  at  his  heels." 

The  Carolinians  were  all  anxiety  and  apprehension,  a  desponding  si- 
lence prevailed  ;  yet  their  champion,  if  vanquished,  had  maintained  the 
unequal  contest  nobly,  and  the  '•  honest  glow  of  manly  pride"  consoled 
every  backer.  Aratus  pursued  his  rapid  and  deadly  career,  giving  no 
quarter.  They  now  came  up  the  stretch,  passed  the  stand,  both  "  going 
the  pace,"  and  entered  upon  the  third  mile,  Aratus  still  leading  ;  round 
the  turn  he  went,  leaning  well  to  the  pole,  with  the  speed  of  a  quarter- 
horse.  Here,  as  a  last  effort,  Bertrand  again  went  at  him,  and  "  made 
his  besu  play  ;"  to  it  they  went — a  desperate  struggle  ensued  for  the  pole 
at  the  last  turn  ;  not  a  whisper  was  to  be  heard ;  many  a  pulse  beat  high, 
and  many  a  heart  quailed  ;  "  such  a  pace"  must  tell ;  Bertrand  has  out- 
lasted Aratus,  and  now  leads  him. 

Aratus,  however,  was  too  game  to  give  it  up  ;  he  kept  his  pull,  and 
lay  close  to  him  round  the  bend.  They  were  now  at  the  commencement 
of  the  straight  run  in — Aratus  had  yet  something  left  in  him  ;  he  went 
up  and  gallantly  renewed  the  contest ;  here  a  last  and  severe  rally  took 
place — ^the  excitement  approached  to  madness — a  thousand  tongues  were 
heard — Aratus  is  up  !  he  is  going  past ! — no,  Bertrand  leads  ;  they  are 
a  dead  lock.  In  this  way,  they  came  home  so  fast,  that  the  riders  "  did 
not  know  how  they  came."*  Bertrand  winning  by  half  a  neck.  Time — 
5  m.,  52  sec. 

To  the  above  Report,  the  Secretary  of  the  South  Carolina  Jockey 
Club  adds,  that  Bertrand  in  three  years — from  three  to  five  years  old — 

*In  the  great  match  race  between  Hambletonian  and  Diamond,  at  Newmarket, 
Oakley,  wlio  rode  Hambletonian,  describing  the  pace  from  the  turn  of  the  lands, 
said,  "  they  came  so  fast,  that  I  did  not  know  how  they  came." 


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never  lost  a  four  mile  race — thirteen  fine  races  may  be  set  down  to  his 
<;redit,  and  though  beaten,  when  4  years  old,  by  Fairfield,  in  a  race  of 
three  mile  heats,  he  lost  no  reputation  by  the  defeat.  He  will  leave  the 
Tuif  uninjured — sound  in  wind  and  limb — terminating  his  South  Caro- 
lina career,  as  a  racer,  by  winning  the  Jockey  Club  Purse  at  Charleston 
of  $1,000  on  Wednesday ;  and  on  the  following  Saturday,  making  his 
memorable  exhibition  of  fleetness  and  game  in  the  Handicap  Race,  as 
reported  above,  three  mile  heats,  beating  Creeping  Kate  and  Aratus — 
on  which  occasion,  in  four  heats,  thrice  round,  (the  Course  forty-two  feet 
short  of  a  mile,)  carrying  120  lbs.,  he  ran  twelve  miles,  (less  one  hun- 
dred and  sixty-eight  yards,)  in  23  m.,  22  sec.  Bertrand  is  a  fine  blood 
bay,  full  16  hands  high  ;  bred  by  Col.  J.  R.  Spann,  of  South  Carolina, 
and  foaled  on  the  9th  day  of  April,  1820.  He  was  got  by  Sir  Archy. 
out  of  Eliza,  (own  sister  to  the  celebrated  running  horse  Gallatin  ;)  Eli- 
za was  by  the  imported  horse  Bedford.  We  repeat,  what  we  have  al- 
ready said  of  this  distinguished  Racer  elsewhere,  "  Ihat  he  was  one  of 
those  horses  who  answer  to  a  pull,"  and  "  come  again,"  under  any 
amount  of  distress. 

182Y. — Washington  Course. — Monday^  Feb.  26. — In  a  Colt  Stake. — 
2  mile  heats. — Four  Nominations. — $200  Each. — Col.  Singleton's  ch. 
c.  Bed(/auntlet,  3  yrs.,  by  Sir  Archy,  out  of  Sylph,  by  Hephestion, 
beat  Sir  Archy,  Jr. 

Wednesday,  Feb.  28.— Jockey  Club  Purse,  1754  23-lUO. — 4  mile 
heats. — Col.  Singleton's  ch.  c.  Redgauntlet  walked  over,  no  competitor 
starting  against  him. 

Sayne  Day — Second  Race, — For  a  Small  Purse  given  by  the  Club, 
$70. — Col.  Hampton's  b.  m.  Nondescript  beat  Col.  Harrison's  b.  h.  Madi- 
son.    The  former  won  first  heat,  and  galloped  over  for  the  second. 

Redgauntlet  is  a  remarkably  promising  colt — of  splendid  appearance, 
and  of  the  purest  blood — foaled  Spring  of  1824.  He  is  a  bright  ches- 
nut,  16  hands  high.  He  was  got  by  Sir  Archy;  his  dam  Sylph,  by  He- 
phestion ;  grand  dam  Lottery,  by  imported  Bedford.  Col.  Singleton 
thinks  very  highly  of  him  ;  and  from  having  trained  him  and  the  cele- 
brated Ariel  together,  he  is  induced  to  put  him  into  the  hands  of  Mr. 
Harrison,  to  be  taken  on  to  Virginia,  to  run  in  a  great  inside  stake,  over 
the  Tree  Hill  Course,  4  mile  heats,  against  Gohanna  and  others,  entrance 
$500,  in  addition  to  the  purse  of  |1,000. 

Thursday,  March  1.  Jockey  Club  Purse,  |565  68-00.  Three  mile 
heats,  weight  for  age. 

Col.  Singleton's  gr.  f.  Ariel,  4  yrs., 11 

Mr.  Graves'  ch.  m.  Lady  Ezras,  5  yrs.,  by  Sir  Archy,       ...        2        2 
Mr.  Harrison's  h.  Roderick.      .        • dis. 


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Same  Day. — Second  Race. — Jockey  Club  Purse. — 2  mile  heats. 

Mr.  Lindsay's  Shylock, 211 

Mr.  Atcheson's  Pompey, 12        2 

Mr.  Nolan's  Old  Hickory, dis. 

Time — 1st  heat,  4  m.,  10  sec;  2(1  heat,  4m,  15  sec;  .3d  heat,  4  m.,  16 
sei!. 

Friday,  March  2. — Jockey  Club  Purse,  -^SYV. — 2  mile  heats,  weights 
as  before.     No  horse  allowed  to  start  that  is  not  under  5  yrs. 

Col  Singleton's  b.  f.  Nondescript,  4  yrs.,  by  Kosciusko,  ..211 
Mr.  Graves'  ch.  c.  Nebo,  3  yrs.,  by  Timoleon,  ....         1         2         2 

Same  Day. — A  match  for  |50. — 2  mile  heats. — Between  a  gr.  c.  of 
Col.  Calhoun's,  and  a  b.  f.  belonging  to  Mr.  Cotton,  which  was  won  by 
the  former  ;  the  b.  f.  bolting. 

Saturday,  March  3d. — Handicap  Race,  ^345  50-100. — Three   mile 

heats. 

Col.  Singleton's  gr.  f.  Ariel,  4  yrs.,  99  lbs., 11 

Mr.  G-raves'  cb.  m.  Lady  Ezras,  5  yrs. 2        2 

Col.  Singleton  won  every  day  this  week,  as  Gen.  Hampton  did  in 
1800. 

A  Small  Purse  was  given  by  the  Club  for  a  Second  Race,  which  wa.s 
won  by  Mr.  Harrison's  b.  h.  Madison,  beating  three  others. 

1828. —  Tuesday,  Feb.  26 — Heats,  2  miles. — A  Gold  Cup,  given  by 
the  South  Carolina  Jockev  Club,  to  be  liable  to  challenge  hereafter,  and 
must  be  won  by  the  same  gentleman  three  successive  years,  or  held 
xmchallenged  during  that  period,  before  his  property  in  it  is  complete. 
Weight  for  age. 

Col.  Singleton's  ch.  f.  Sally  Taylor,  4  yrs.,  by  Kosciusko,         ..11 
Col.  Spann's  g.  e.  Rapley,  4  yrs  ,  by  Bassanio,         ....        4        2 
Mr.  Shannon's  ch.  c.  Richmond,  3  yrs.,  by  (Jallatin,         ...         2        dr. 
Mr.  Harrison's  b.  f.  Eliza,  3  yrs.,  by  Madison,         ....         3        dr. 
Mr.  Moore's  ch.  c.  Erin,  4  yrs.,  by  Knickerbocker,  .         .  dis. 

Wednesday,  Feb.  21. — Jockey  Club  Purse,  $622.44,  and  a  bet  of 
$1,000. — 4  mile  heats.     Weight  for  age. 

Col.  Singleton's  ch.  c.  Crusader,  4  yrs.,  by  Sir  Archy,     ...         1         1 
Col.  Wynn's  gr.  m.  Ariel,  5  yrs.,  by  Eclipse, 2        2 

Time  not  kept — heavy,  and  even  betting  ;  a  very  close  race.  Cru- 
sader is  a  horse  of  immense  size,  16  hands  3  inches  high  ;  in  color,  a 
chesnut,  without  white,  except  a  small  star  on  the  forehead  ;  with  fine 
action,  notwithstanding  his  height;  his  stride  is  said  to  be  25  feet. 
After  retiring  from  the  turf,  he  stood  for  some  seasons  in  this  State ;  he 
was,  in  1831,  taken  to  Tennessee;  he  stood  in  that  State  till  1834, 
when  he  was  removed  to  Russelville,  in  Kentucky. 


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Thursday,  Feb.  28. — -Jockey   Club  Purse,  $466.83. — 3  mile  heats. 

Conditions  as  before. 

Col   "VVynn's  ch.  m.  Sally  Hope,  5  yrs.,  by  Sir  Archy,     ...         1         1 
Col.  Singleton's  b.  m.  Nondescript,  5  yrs.,  by  Kosciusko,  .  2        2 

Mr.  Harrison's  ch.  f.  Lady  Lightfoot,  4   yrs.,  by  Virginius,     ..33 
Col.  Spann's  b.  c  Archy,  4  yrs.,  by  Sir  Archy,         ...         .44 

Time — 1st  heat,  5  m.  51  sec. ;  2d  beat,  6  m.  3  sec. 
Same  day — Second  Race. — A  Match,  2  mile  heats. 

Mr.  Cotton's  b.  f .  Maxy, Oil 

Col.  Spann's  gr.  f.  Carolina 0        2        2 

A.  beautiful  race ;  the  1st  heat  a  dead  heat ;  the  2d  and  3d  heats 
handsomely  and  closely  contested  :  no  time  kept. 

Friday,  Feb.  29.— Jockey  Club  Purse,  $3 1 1  .—2  mile  heats.     Weights 

as  before.     No  horse  allowed  to  start  that  is  not  under  5  years.     . 

Col.  Wynn'sch.  g.  Weehawk,  3  yrs.,  by  Shawnee,  .3011 

Col.  Spann's  ch.  f.  Multiflora,  3  yrs.,  by  Kosciusko,         .2-32 
Col.  Singleton's  ch.  f.  Sally  Taylor,  4  yrs.,  by  Kosciusko,       10        2        dis. 

Time — 1st  heat,  3  m.  52  sec;  2d  heat,  4  m.  4 sec. ;  3d  heat,  4  m.  2 
sec. ;  4th  heat,  4  m. 

2d  heat — A  dead  beat  between  Sally  Taylor  and  Weehawk.  Multi- 
flora  made  a  very  game  race,  although  sbe  did  not  win  a  heat.  This 
mare,  it  will  be  seen,  distinguished  herself  by  some  capital  performances 
in  subsequent  years. 

Saturday,  March  1. — Handicap  Race,  $395.31. — 3  mile  heats. 

Col.  Wynn's  gr.  m.  Ariel,  5  yrs.,  95  lbs  ,  .         .  ..11 

Mr.  Graves'  ch.  M.  Lady  Esdras,  6  yrs.,  .         .  ..22 

Col.  Singleton's  ch.  c.  Crusader,  102  lbs-,  ....        brokedown. 

Crusader  broke  down  in  the  third  mile  of  the  first  heat. 

Ariel  is  a  very  noted  running  mare.  From  the  time  she  made  her 
debut  in  182Y,  to  the  end  of  her  (sareer,  it  has  been  one  continued 
succession  of  triumphs ;  the  few  races  she  lost,  from  her  position  in 
them,  detracting  nothing  from  her  reputation.  Col.  Wynn,  of  Virginia, 
remarked  of  her,  that,  under  the  continuation  of  one  training,  she  ran 
in  different  contests  the  astonishing  distance  of  ninety-nine  miles,  mostly 
under  whip  and  spur. 

1829. —  Wednesday,  Feb.  25. — Jockey  Club  Purse,  $95Y.16. — 4  mile 
heats.    Weight  for  age  ;  free  to  all  ages. 

Mr.  Atchison's  ch.  f.  Multiflora,  4  yrs.,  by  Kosciusko,      .         .         .         1         1 
Col.  Myers  b.  c   Lafayette,  3  yrs. 2        2 

Time — 1st  heat,  8  m.  15  sec. ;  2d  heat,  9  m.  38  sec.  Course  very 
heavy. 

Thursday,  Feb.  26. — Jockey  Club  Purse,  $717.87. — Conditions  as 


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before.  Col.  Singleton's  b.  f.  Phenomena^  3  yrs.,  by  Sir  Archy,  beat 
Col.  Richardson's  b.  h.  Archy,  5  yrs.,  by  Sir  Archy,  Mr.  Moore's  b.  f. 
Dora,  3  yrs.,  by  Kosciusko,  and  Col.  Myers'  b.  f.  Lady  of  the  Lake,  4 
yrs.,  by  Kosciusko. 

Friday,  Feb.  27. — Jockey  Club  Purse,  .1<4'78.62. — 2  mile  heats. 
Weights  as  before. — No  horse  allowed  to  start  over  4  yrs.  Col.  Sin- 
gleton's gr.  f.  Lady  Jane  Grey,  4  yrs.,  by  Kosciusko,  beat  Mr.  Moore's 
ch.  c.  C'laremont,  4  yrs.,  by  Kosciusko,  Mr.  Wm.  Richardson's  b.  f. 
Coquette,  3  yrs.,  by  Sir  Richard,  and  Col.  Myers'  ch.  f.  Lady  Deerpond, 
4  yrs.,  by  Kosciusko. 

Same  day — Second  Race. — Purse,  $50. — 2  mile  heats,  was  won  by 
Lady  of  the  Lake,  beating  Little  William  and  Gertrude. 

Saturday,  Feb.  28. — Handicap  Race. — Purse,  329.50. — 3  mile  heats. 

Col.  Singleton's  gr.  f.  Lady  Jane  Grey,  4  yrs  ,  handicapped,  99  lbs.,  3  11 
Mr.  Atcheson's  ch.  m.  Sally  Taylor,  5  yrs.,  ...  .122 
Col.  Myers'  b.  c.  Lafayette,  3  yrs., 2     dr. 

Same  day — Second  Race. — Purse,  $50. — Heats,  1  mile. 

Mr.  Brown's  m.  Trial, 4        4  11 

Mr.  Young's  h.  Plenipo, 13  2        2 

Mr.  Sinkler's  h.  Gambler, 2        1  4        dr. 

Mr.  Porcher's  h.  Ravenswood, 3        2  3        dr. 

1830. —  Wednesday,  Feb.  24. — Jockey  Club  Purse,  $950. — 4  mile 
heats,  weight  for  age,  was  won  by  Mr.  Atcheson's  ch.  m.  Multijiora,  5 
yrs.  old,  beating  in  two  heats  Mr.  Brown's  gr.  m.  Lady  Jane  Gray,  and 
Mr.  Richardson's  ch.  c;.  Virginias,  (distanced.)  Col.  Wynn  had  entered 
his  b.  f.  Kate  Kearney,  but  she  did  not  start. 

Thursday,  Feb.  25. — Jockey  Club  Purse,  $600. — 3  mile  heats  ;  was 
won  by  Col.  Wynn's  b.  in.  Polly  Hopkins,  beating  in  two  heats  Col. 
vSiugleton's  b.  m.  Phenomenon,  and  Mr.  Harrison's  gr.  m.  Sally  Splotch, 
(distanced.)  Fine  race  between  Polly  Hopkins  and  Phenomenon,  until 
the  latter  broke  down  in  the  last  quarter  of  2d  heat.  Time — 5  m.  51 
sec. ;  2d  heat,  6  m, 

Same  day — Second  Race. — Jockey  Club  Purse. — 2  mile  heats. — Col. 
Singleton's  b.  m.  Lady  of  the  Lake  beat  Mr.  Cotton's  Anti-Tariti",  and  Mr. 
Brown's  ch.  g.  Pelham. 

Friday,  Feb.  26. — Jockey  Club  Purse,  $400. — 2  mile  heats,  weight 
for  age.     No  horse  allowed  to  start  that  is  not  under  5  yrs. 

Col.  Singleton's  ch.  f.  Clara  Fisher,         ....        3        4         1         1 
Mr.  Harrison's  ch.  f.  Yankee  Maid, 
Col.  Wynn's  ch.  m.  Polly  Jones,     . 
Mr.  Brown's  b.  M.  Sally  Melville, 
Mr.  Kichardson's  b.  m.  Coquette,  . 


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Time — 1st  heat,  3  m.  48  sec.  •,  2d  heat,  3  m.  52  sec. ;  3d  heat,  3  m. 
49  sec. ;    4th  heat,  3  m.  49  sec. 

Same  day — Second  Race. — Jockey  Chib  Purse. — 2  mile  heats  ;  was 
won  by  Mr.  Atcheson's  ch.  f.  Lady  Adams,  beating  Mr.  Brown's  Lofty, 
and   Mr.  Hammond's  b.  f.  Black-eyed  Susan  (distanced). 

Saturday,  Feb  27  — Handicap  Race,  $368. — 3  mile  heats. — Col. 
Singleton's  b.  m.  Za(/y  q/"  the  Lake  beat  Mr.  Harrison's  Lady  Lightfoot, 
Mr.  Brown's  Lady  Jane  Grey,  and  Col.  Wynn's  Polly  Hopkins.  Lady 
of  the  Lake  won  the  first  and  third  heats;  Lady  Lightfoot  the  second 
heat.  Polly  Hopkins  was  placed  second  in  the  first  heat,  but  was  im- 
mediately drawn.  Time — 1st  heat,  5  m.  44-^  sec  ;  2d  heat,  6  m.  ;  3d 
heat,  5  m.  54  sec. 

In  a  second  Race,  on  the  same  day,  for  a  purse  given  by  the  Club,  2 
mile  heats,  Mr.  Atcheson's  ch.  f.  Lady  Adams  beat  Mr.  Brown's  b.  f. 
Sally  Melville. 

The  Gold  Cup  which  was  won  by  Col.  Singleton  in  1828,  with  his  ch. 
f.  Scdly   Taylor,  having  remained   in    his    possession  three  successive 
seasons  unchallenged,  his  property  in  it,  according  to  the  original  con 
ditions,  this  year ,  became  complete. 

1831 Few  oflicial  statements  of  our  Races  ("  few  and  far  between"), 

and  they  very  imperfect,  had  been  preserved  by  our  Club  previous  to  the 
present  year,  1831.  The  different  events,  which  are  recorded  above, 
from  1734  to  1831,  nearly  a  century,  have  by  great  diligence  been 
carefully  collected  from  the  public  journals  of  the  last  century,  on  file 
in  the  archives  of  the  (iity  and  State — from  old  letters,  and  manuscripts, 
and  memoranda  made  at  the  time  by  the  owners  or  trainers  of  many 
of  the  horses,  and  which  have  been  kindly  furnished  to  the  writer,  by 
"  gentlemen  of  the  olden  time,"  or  their  descendants  :  in  truth,  all  the 
best  and  highest  sources  to  which  reference  could  be  had,  have  been 
made  available,  so  as  to  leave  no  doubt  that  all  that  has  been  set  down, 
is  of  unquestionable  accuracy — "  good  authority"  for  the  future  ! 

This  labour  was  commenced,  fortunately,  before  all  the  good  old 
stock  of  Carolina  Turfmen  had  passed  away  from  the  scenes  of  their 
triumphs — from  "  the  places  that  knew  them  once,  but  now  know  them 
no  more."  If  it  had  been  deferred  to  a  later  period,  the  probability  is, 
no  one  would  have  been  willing  to  undertake  it.  With  the  kindest 
disposition  to  help  the  writer,  manifested  by  every  one,  who  has  either 
been  consulted  or  written  to  on  the  subject,  he  confesses,  he  has  been 
from  time  to  time  a  good  deal  in  the  dark  up  to  this  point  (1831),  and 
had  to  grope  his  way  along  with  much  caution  and  trouble — many  of 


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the  events  that  came  off  being  wrapped  in  much  obscurity  ;  but  now, 
from  the  obstacles  that  obstructed  his  progress,  from  the  shadows  that 
surrounded  him,  he  emerges  into  the  perfect  day ;  he  sees  the  way 
before  him  plainly ;  his  task  henceforth  becomes  comparatively  easy. 
The  minutes  of  our  Club  show  a  fair,  uninterrupted  report  from  this 
date  (1831),  down  to  1856  inclusive,  of  all  tlie  races  run  in  South  Caro- 
lina, over  the  Washington  Course,  under  the  authority  of  the  South 
Carolina  Jockey  Club. 

Wi'dnesdaij,  Feb.  23,  1831.— Jockey  Club  Purse,  |900.— 4  mile 
heats,  weights  for  age. — The  Course  in  circumference  42  feet  short  of 
a  mile. 

Mr.  Watson's  ch.  f.  Gabriella,  4  yrs.,  by  Sir  Archy, 

dam  by  Bellair,  , 1441 

Col.  Richardson's  b.  f.  Little  Venus,  3  yrs.,  by  Sir  Wil- 
liam, dam  by  Virginius, 2        2        12 

Mr.  Hammond's  ch.  f.  Polly  Kennedy,  4  yrs.,  by  Napo- 
leon, dam  by  Sea  Gull,        ......        4         1         3        3 

Mr.  Taylor's  ch.  f.  Betsey  Robbins,  4  yrs.,  by  Kosciusko, 

dam  by  Hephestion,    .......        3        3        2  ruled  out. 

Mr.  Richardson's  ch.  h.  John  of  Roanoke,  4  yrs.,  by  Vir- 
ginius, dam  by , 5      dr. 

Time — 1st  heat,  8  m.,  11  sec;  2d  heat,  8  ra.,  29  sec;  3d  heat,  8  m., 
15  sec;  4th  heat,  8  m.,  14  sec. 

Second  Race — Same  Day. — Jockey  Club  Purse,  |80. — 2  mile  heats. 
— Carrying  feathers. 

Mr.  Watson's  ch.  g.  Weehawk,  6  yrs.,  by  Shawnee,  dam  by  Gallatin,     1        1 
Mr.  Hammond's  gr.  m.  Eliza  Splotch,  5  yrs.,  by  Sir  Archy,  dam  by 

Citizen,  ' 2        2 

Time— 1st  heat,  4  m.;  2d  heat,  4  m.,  2  sec. 

Thursday,  Feb.  24. — Jockey  Club  Purse,  600. — Three  mile  heats. — 
Distance  Post  130  yds.,  conditions  as  before. 

Col.  Singleton's  ch.  f.  Clara  Fisher,  3  yrs.,  by  Kosciusko,  dam 
by  Hephestion,    .        .        .        , 2        2    w.  over. 

Mr.  Watson's  b.  c.  Pilot,  3  yrs  ,  by  Sir  Archy,  dam  by  Galla- 
.tin, 3         1        dr. 

Mr.  Hammond's  b.  g.  LaFayette,  5  yrs.,  by  Gallatin,  dam  by 
) 1      dis. 

Time — 1st  heat,  5  m.,  56  sec;  2d  heat,  5  m.,  48  sec. 

First  heat. — LaFayette  went  off  on  the  lead ;  Clara  well  up,  but  with- 
out seeming  to  make  an  effort  to  pass  him  ;  Pilot  hard  in  hand,  just 
dropped  within  the  distance  post. 

Second  heat.— LaFayette  and  Clara  again  in  the  lead  for  the  first 
mile  and  a  half,  when  Pilot  went  up,  and  considerably  increased  the 
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pace — a  splendid  race  home  ensued  between  Pilot  and  Clara,  the  for- 
mer winninir  it  by  a  length  ;  LaFayette  distanced. 

On  pulling  up,  Pilot  was  found  to  be  so  lame,  as  to  make  it  necessary 
immediately  to  draw  hira.  This  much  regretted  occurrence,  together 
with  the  distancing  of  LaFayette,  terminated  the  contest.  Clara  Fisher, 
according  to  rule,  walked  over  the  course,  and  was  declared  the  win- 
ner. 

^^"  Notwithstanding  Clara  Fisher  did  not  win  a  heat  in  this  race, 
when  she  had  an  opponent,  her  friends  in  South  Carolina  were  willing, 
and,  therefore,  immediately  proposed  to  back  her  against  any  horse,  4 
mile  heats,  for  $5,000,  h.  f.  The  race  to  be  run  over  the  Washington 
Course,  near  Charleston,  South  Carolina,  on  the  Tuesday  preceding  the 
regular  races  of  next  year,  subject  to  the  rules  of  said  Course.  Accep- 
tance of  this  challenge  to  be  made  on  or  before  1st  day  of  June  next. 

Second  Race — Same  day. — Jockey  Club  Purse,  $80. — 2  mile  heats. 
— Carrying  a  feather. 

Mr.  "Watson's  ch.  f.  Jemima  Wilkinson,  3  yrs  ,  by  Sir  Arcliy,  dam  by 

Jack  Andrews,       .         .         -         .  .....      1         1 

Mr.  Richardson'.«  b.  m.  Coquette,  5  yrs,  by  Sir  Richard,  dam  by  Vir- 

ginius,  ...........      2        2 

Mr.  Hammond's  ch.g.  Wabash,  5  yrs.,  by  Sir  William,  dam  by ,      dis. 

Mr.  HarreU's  b.  g.  Bedford,  6  yrs.,  by  Sir  Archy,  dam  by  . ,         .   dis. 

Time — 1st  heat,  3  m.,  56  sec;  2d  heat,  3  m.,  58  sec. 
Friday,  Feb.  25. — Jockey  Club  Purse,  |425. — 2  mile  heats,  weights 
as  before ;  no  horse  allowed  to  start  that  is  not  under  5  years. 

Col.  Richardson's  ch.  c.  Bertrand,  Jr.,  3  yrs.,  by  Ber- 

trand,  dam  by  Virginius, 2        3         11 

Mr.  Watson's  ch.  c.  Andrew,  3  yrs.,  by  Sir  Charles,  dam 

by  Herod, 3122 

Mr.  Brown's  ch.  g.  Pelham,  4  yrs.,  by  Kosciusko,  dam 

by  Bedford 1        2      dr 

Mr.  Lewis'  ch.  f.  Minna  Brenda,  3  yrs.,  by  Kosciusko, 

dam  by  Hephestion, 4        4       dis. 

Time — 1st  heat,  3  ra.,  53  sec;  2d  heat,  3  m.,  49  sec;  3d  heat,  3  m. 
50  sec;  4th  heat,  3  m.,  57  sec. 

Pelham  won  ^^  first  heat  very  handily,  Minna  Brenda  trying  to  come 
up  with  him  in  one  part  of  the  heat ;  the  two  favorites,  Bertrand  Jr. 
and  Andrew,  waiting  on  each  other,  far  behind  the  leading  horse. 

In  the  second  heat.  Pelham  again  led  off,  but  Andrew  crept  up  to  him 
in  the  second  round,  and  after  a  quick  race,  defeated  him  by  two  lengths. 

Third  heat. — Andrew  the  favorite,  Pelham  drawn,  and  Minna  Brenda 
evidently  not  in  good  fix  for  a  lasting  race.  Upon  Bertrand  Jr.  the 
bopes  of  the  backers  of  the  field  alone  depended.  He  was  known  to 
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come  of  a  sjood  stock,  but  he  was  quite  untried,  this  being  his  first  race. 
At  the  signal  to  start,  Andrew  lead  off,  with  Bertrand  Jr.  in  close  com- 
pany ;  Andrew  tried  to  shake  him  off,  but  unavailingly.  In  the  last 
half  mile,  Bertrand  Jr.  made  his  push  for  the  heat,  and  came  out  ahead 
of  his  competitor  by  a  length  ;  Minna  distanced. 

Fourth  heat — Much  difference  of  opinion  prevailed  as  to  the  result. 
They  went  off  in  fine  style,  keeping  up  an  honest  stride  to  the  end.  Ber- 
trand Jr.  winning  the  heat,  and,  consequently,  the  purse,  in  3  m.,  57 
sec;  thus  proving  himself  worthy  of  the  sire  who  did  beget  him.  The 
stock  from  which  he  springs  is  of  great  celebrity,  and  has  figured,  with 
marked  distinction,  at  various  periods,  on  our  Course.  What  lover  of 
the  Turf  is  there,  who  remembers  not  Bertrand  and  Transport  ? 

Second  Race — Same  day. — Jockey  Club  Purse,  175. — Mile  Heats. — 
Untrained  Saddle  Horses. — A  feather. 

Mr.  Richardson's  br.  g.  Skyscraper 11 

Mr.  Pepper's  b.  g.  Nat,  2        2 

Mr.  R.  H.  Brown's  g.  g.  Robert, 4        3 

Mr.  Barrel's  b.  g.  Quaker, 3        4 

Mr.  "Williams'  b.  g.  Duroc,         ........  5      dr. 

Time — 1st  heat,  2  m.,  4  sec;  2d  heat,  2  m.,  2  sec. 
Saturday.,  Feb.  26. — Handicap  Race,  $356. — 3  mile  heats. — Distance 
Post  130  yards. 

Mr.  Hammond's  ch.f  Polly  Kennedy,4  yrs.,by  Napoleon, 

dam  by  Sea  Gull,  80  lbs., 4        3         11 

Mr.  Taylor's  eh.  f.  Betsey  Robbins,  4  yrs.,  by  Kosciusko, 

dan^  by  Hephestion,  80  lbs.,       ....  3132 

Mr  Richardson's  b.  m.  Coquette,  5  yrs  ,  by  Sir  Richard, 

dam  by  Virginius,  90  lbs., 12        2      di«. 

Mr.  Watson's  ch.  g.  Wehawk,  5  yrs  ,  by  Shawnee,  dam 

by  Gallatin,  100  lbs ,  ....  .      2        4      dr. 

Time — 1st  heat,  6  m.;  2d  heat,  6  m.,  10  sec;  3d  heat,  6  m.,  15  sec; 
4th  heat,  5  m.,  58  sec 

The  last  heat  was  beautifully  contested  between  Polly  Kennedy  and 
Betsey  Robbins ;  the  latter,  before  starting,  showed  a  slight  lameness  in 
one  of  her  hind  legs. 

Second  Race. — Jockey  Club  Purse,  |80. — 2  mile  heats. — A  feather. 

Mr.  Brown's  ch.  g.  Pelham 11 

Mr.  Hammond's  b.  g.  Lafayette, 2        2 

Time — 1st  heat,  3  ra.,  54  sec;   2d  heat,  4  m.,  6  sec 
In  this  year,  several  important  Resolutions  were  passed — among  others, 
it  was  decided  as  meet  and  proper,  that  in  fulure   an  officer  shall  be  an- 
nually chosen,  whose  business  it  should  be  to  keep  a  full,  true  and  im- 
partial account  of  all  the  proceedings  of  the  Club,  with  every  thing  of 


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interest  relating  to  the  sports  of  the  week.     This  honor  was  conferred 
upon  Dr.  Irving. 

It  was  also  determined  as  expedient  to  enclose  the  Race  Ground  by  a 
close  fence,  seven  feet  high,  and  to  levy  upon  foot  passengers  a  small  as- 
sessment, to  entitle  them  to  admission  to  the  Course,  to  witness  the 
amusements  of  the  Turf 

It  was,  also,  ordered,  that  a  fence  four  feet  high  should  be  put  up,  to 
extend  in  both  directions  from  the  Starting  Post,  so  as  to  exclude  all 
persons  but  members  of  the  Club,  and  their  invited  guests,  from  that 
part  of  the  Track. 

1832. — Tuesday,  Feb.  21.— Match  between  Col.  W.  R.  Johnson's  Bon- 
nets o'  Blue  and  Col.  Singleton's  Clara  Fisher,  for  $5,000  a  si<le,  h.  f., 
4  mile  heats,  weights  for  age-,  both  beiTig  4  yrs.  old,  carrying  99  lbs. 

Since  the  famous  match  between  Eclipse  and  Henry,  on  Long  Island, 
nothing  has  occurred  in  the  annals  of  the  American  Turf,  to  attract  a 
more  anxious  field,  than  was  collected  on  this  occasion.  The  Judges 
were — 

Major  J.  M.  Selden,  of  Baltimore,  Maryland. 

Major  John  Cantey,  Camden,  South  Carolina. 

Col.  B.  T.  Elmore,  Camden, 

Col.  Thos.  Pinckney,  Pendleton,       " 

Col.  W.  R.  Johnson's  g.  f.  Bonnets  o'  Blue,  4  yrs.,  by  Sir  Char- 
les, dam  Reality,  by  Sir  Archy,   2        1     w.  over 

Col.  Singleton's  ch.  f.  Clara  Fisher,  4  yrs.,  by  Kosciusko,  dam 
by  Hephestion, 1        2       dr. 

Time — 1st  heat,  7  m.,  45  sec;  2d  heat,  8  m.,  5  sec. 

For  many  days  previous  to  this  .contest  coming  oiF,  Col.  Singletoa con- 
templated paying  forfeit,  in  consequence  of  his  filly  having  sustained  an 
injury  a  few  weeks  before.  He  was  overruled,  however,  by  those  who 
had  most  freely  backed  his  mare,  and,  therefore,  consented  to  start  her. 
She  won  the  first  heat  easily,  in  V  m.,  45  sec;  but  whilst  running  for 
the  second  heat,  in  the  third  mile,  her  leg  failed;  but  with  astonishing 
endurance,  actually  running  on  three  legs,  she  continued  her  exertions 
to  the  close  of  the  heat,  contriving  to  get  up,  and  to  come  out  only  two 
lengths  behind  her  fortunate  rival.  On  holding  up,  it  was  found  (as  was 
expected)  that  she  was  let  down  in  one  of  her  fore  feet.  This  accident,  of 
course,  terminated  the  race,  Clara  being  withdrawn. 

Wednesday,  Feb.  22. — Jockey  Club  Purse. — 4  mile  heats. — Weights 
as  in  preceding  year. 


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Col.  W.  R.  Johnson's  ch.  f.  Trifle,  3  yrs.,  by  Sir  Charles,  dam  by 

Cicero, .11 

Mr.  Thurston's  ch  h.  Redgauntlet,  5  yrs.,  by  Sumpter,  dam  by  im- 
ported Archer.  .        .         .         • .22 

Col.  Richardson's  ch.  h.  Mucklejohn,  4   yrs.,  by   Mucklejohn,  dam 

by  Highflyer, bolted. 

Time — 1st  heat,  8  m.;  2d  heat,  8  m.,  5  sec. 

There  was  little  or  no  interest  in  this  race.  Mucklejohn  (between 
vrhom  and  Trifle  the  only  competition  was  expected)  having  bolted  in 
the  fourth  round  of  the  first  heat.  Both  heats  were  afterwards  won  ea- 
sily by  Trifle. 

This  beautiful  and  extraordinary  little  animal,  has  been  deservedly 
regarded  as  a  phenomenon,  and  promises  much  in  the  future.  She 
is  one  of  the  many  instances  that  may  be  cited  to  prove  that  the  most 
valuable  goods  are  sometimes  put  up  in  the  smallest  packages.  Trifle 
was  foaled  April  2, 1828.  She  is  a  bright  chesnut,  near  hind  leg  white, 
between  fourteen  and  a  half  and  fourteen  three-quarter  hands  high,  of 
perfect  symmetry,  with  action  very  beautiful.  She  was  bred  by  Mr. 
Thomas  Graves,  (of  Chesterfield  County,  Virginia  ;)  was  got  by  Sir 
Charles ;  dam  a  grey  mare  of  fine  figure,  five  feet  three  inches  high,  by 
Cicero  ;  Cicero  was  by  Sir  Archy,  dam  by  Diomed. 

Second  Race — Same  day. — Jockey  Club  Purse. — 2  mile  heats. — Car- 
rying a  feather. 

Col.  Singleton's  ch.  f .  Mary  Frances,  5  yrs.,  by  Director,  dam  by  Gal- 
latin,        .........  .11 

Col.  Ferguson's  br.  m.  Jessamine,  aged,  by  Dockon,  out  of  Virginia,     2        2 

Time — 1st  heat,  4  m.,  6  sec;  2d  heat,  4  m.,  25  sec. 
Thursday,  Feb.  23. — Jockey  Club  Purse. — 3  mile  heats. — Weights 
as  on  preceding  day. 

Col.  Richardson's  ch  h.  Bertrand,  Jr.,  4  yrs.,  by  Bertrand, 

dam  Transport,  by  Virginius, 2         1     w.  ovtr. 

Col.  Wm.  R.  Johnson's  ch.  f.  Annette,  4  yrs,  by  Sir  Charles, 

dam  by  Independence, 1        2        dr. 

Col.  Ferguson's  eh.  c.  Lafayette,  4  yrs  ,  by  Kosciusko,  dam  by 

Virginius, 3     bolted. 

Time— 1st  heat,  5  m.,  46  sec;  2d  heat,  5  m.,  58  sec 

A  pretty  race  between  the  two  first ;  Annette  winning  the  first  heat 

by  a  head,  and  contending  very  creditably  for  the  second  ;   Bertrand  Jr. 

was  not  disposed,  however,  to  yield  the  palm  to  his  fair  competitor,  and 

won  the  race  in  very  gallant  style. 

Second  Race — Same  day. — Jockey  Club  Purse. — 2''mile  heats. — Car- 
rying a  feather. 


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Col.  Richardson's  ch.  c.  Mucklejohn,  4  yrs.,  by   Mucklejohn, 

dam  by  Highflyer, 2         1     w.  over. 

Mr.  Brown's  ch.  g.  Pelham,  4  yrs.,  by  Kosciusko,  dam  by  Bed- 
ford  1         2      dr. 

Mr.  Allen's  b   m.  Helen  McGregor,  5  yrs.,  by  Reliance,         .       di3. 

Time — 1st  heat,  3  m,,  54  sec;  2d  heat,  4  m.,  6  sec. 
Friday,  Feb.  24. — Jockey  Club  Purse. — 2  mile  heats. — Weight  for 
age  ;  but  no  horse  to  start  that  is  not  under  five  yrs. 

Col.  Richardson's  b.  f.  Little  Venus,  4  yrs  ,  by  Sir  William,  of  Tran- 
sport, dam  Leocadi,  by  Virginius,  .  1  w.  over. 

Col.  W.  R.  Johnson's  ch.  f.  Annette,  4  yrs.,  by  Sir  Charles,  dam  by 

Independence, 2       dr. 

Col.  Ferguson's  b.  f.  Calista,  3  yrs  ,  by  Crusader,  dam  by  Virginius,.        3       dr. 

Time — 3  m.,  58  see. 

Second  Race — Same  day. — Jockey  Club  Purse. — For  Saddle  Horses. 

Mr.  Brown's  g.  m.  Lady  Jane  Grey, 

Mr.  Richardson's  br.  g.  Skyscraper,     ...... 

Mr.  Snail's  ch.  g.  Wm.  Tell, 

Saturday,  Feb.  25. — Handicap  Race — 3  mile  heats. 

Col.  Richardson's  b.  f.  Little  Venus,  99  lbs.,  .... 
Col.  Wm.  R.  Johnson's  ch.  f.  Trifle,  87  lbs.,  .... 
Col.  Singleton's  ch.  m.  Mary  Frances,  95  lbs.,   .... 

Time — 1st  heat,  5  ra.,  51  sec;  2d  heat,  5  m.,  49  sec. 

This  race  created  a  great  deal  of  interest,  from  the  previously  well- 
earned  fame  of  Trifle  and  Little  Venus.  Little  Venus  made  play  in  both 
heats,  and  won  very  cleverly. 

At  the  termination  of  the  race,  a  match  was  immediately  made  be- 
tween Trifle  and  Mary  Frances.  The  challenge  was  given  by  the  backers 
of  Mary  Frances,  (which  was  promptly  accepted  by  the  parties  interested 
in  Trifle,)  to  run  another  heat  forthwith  for  $500.  The  preliminaries 
being  adjusted,  they  started  in  fine  style.  After  a  closely  contested  race, 
Trifle  was  declared  the  winner  by  a  few  lengths. 

Second  Race — Same  day. — Jockey  Club  Purse. — Best  3  in  5. — Was 
won  by  Mr.  Thurston's  Redgauntlet,  beating  Mr.  Brown's  Lady  Jane 
Grey.   Thus  terminated  the  races  of  1832. 

The  following  Sweepstakes  were  opened  for  1833  : 

We,  the  subscribers,  agree  to  run  a  Sweepstake  over  the  Washington 
Course  next  meeting,  with  colts  and  fillies,  then  three  years  old,  entrance 
$500,  h.  f.,  three  or  more  to  make  a  race,  two  mile  heats,  to  name  and 
close  immediately.  The  race  to  take  place  on  the  Monday  preceding 
the  regular  races  at  Charleston. 

Richard  Singleton  names  ch.  f.,  by  Crusader,  out  of  Young  Lottery: 

John  R.  Spann  names  b.  f.,  by  Bertrand,  out  of  Transport. 


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Wra.  R.  Johnson  names  b.  c,  Herr  Cline,  by  Sir  Archy,  dam  by  Gal- 
latin. 

Our  friends  from  Virginia,  who  were  with  us  in  unusual  force  during 
this  meetincr,  were  warmly  welcomed  by  the  Club.  In  evidence  of  the 
spirit  and  right  feeling  that  prevailed  at  the  Anniversary  Dinner,  which 
took  place  on  the  day  after  the  match  was  decided  between  Bonnets  o' 
Blue  and  Clara  Fisher,  we  record,  with  pleasure,  the  following  toasts : 

By  Major  Selden,  of  Baltimore — Clara  Fisher  and  Bonnets  o'  Blue — 
both  so  admirable,  that  we  are  left  in  doubt,  whether  "  the  grey  mare  is  the 
better  horse  /" 

By  Col.  Hampton,  of  South  Carolina — Our  Guest,  Col.  Wm.  R.John- 
son, the  Napoleon  of  the  Turf. 

After  Col.  Johnson  had  replied  to  this  toast,  he  offered  a  complimen- 
tary sentiment  to  Clara  Fisher. 

John  B.  Irving  then  gave — Bonnets  o' Blue — May  we  have  ^' all  the 
Blue  Bonnets  over  the  Border." 

Before  we  altogether  close  our  report  of  the  races  this  year,  we  would 
embrace  the  opportunity  to  remark,  from  the  distinguished  performan- 
ces of  Trifle  and  Little  Venus,  and  from  the  diminutive  height  of  these 
animals,  neither  of  them  being  over  15  hands,  that  it  would  appear  size 
is  not  all-important  in  a  Race  Horse.  We  have  seen  that  many  of  the 
best  racers  in  our  calendar,  and  some  of  the  most  distinguished  stallions 
ever  imported  into  this  country,  were  horses  of  moderate  height,  some 
of  them  under  15  hands. 

Medley  was  under  15,  so  was  Citizen;  yet  their  get  continued  to  run 
successfully  at  all  distances,  with  even  aged  weight. 

Goode's  Babrahem  was  a  small  horse — that  is,  not  a  tall  horse — yet 
his  races,  with  140  lbs.  on  his  back,  were  in  good  time. 

Comet,  as  will  be  seen  by  a  reference  to  our  memoranda  of  races  in 
1788,  was  only  a  little  over  14  hands ;  yet  he  was  a  winner  against  the 
best  horses  of  the  day,  continuing  long  on  the  turf,  and  at  the  heaviest 
weights. 

Collector,  by  the  same  sire  that  Comet  was — namely,  Mark  Anthony- 
was  also  under  15  hands;  in  speed,  he  was  inferior  to  none. 

Flimnap  v/as  under  15  hands;  yet  his  performances  on  the  turf  were 
very  creditable,  even  when  aged ;  and  some  of  his  get  were  greatly  dis- 
tinguished— Betsey  Baker,  for  instance  ;  she  was  small  and  delicate. 

Meteor,  a  son  of  Eclipse,  and  famous  as  the  sire  of  Copenhagen,  the 
Duke  of  Wellington's  favorite  charger,  hardly  e'xceeded  14^  hands. 

In  a  late  article  in  the  London  Sporting  Magazine,  1856,  there  is  the 
following  remark,  on  size  not  having  much  to  do  with  success  on  the 


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turf,  provided  a  horse's  lungs  and  loins  are  only  sound  and  strong,  and 
his  machinery  compactly  placed  for  working. 

"  Whilst  Wild  Dayrell,  Filho  da  Puta  and  Birmingham,  the  latter  of 
whom  was  above  sixteen  three,  are  the  largest  horses  that  we  remember 
to  have  run  with  marked  success,  the  Turf  "  Ponies"  from  Milksop, An- 
caster.  Starling,  Highlander  and  Gimcrack,  down  to  Midas  and  Mickey 
Free,  have  averaged  fourteen  two ;  and  yet  no  horses  have  been  more 
fortunate  at  all  distances,  from  a  mile  to  four  miles,  and  at  all  weights, 
from  8  St.,  1  lbs.,  to  12  st." 

There  never  has  been  a  period  in  the  history  of  the  American  Turf, 
when  some  small  horses  were  not  distinguished.  Fair  Play,  by  Citizen, 
won  a  great  many  races,  most  of  them  at  broken  heats ;  he  was  but  14^ 
hands  high.  Malvina,  only  14J  high,  by  Precipitate,  was  a  good  and 
lasting  animal.  On  one  occasion,  at  Petersburg,  Virginia,  she  beat  many 
excellent  horses,  a  four  mile  race,  at  four  heats.  Sir  Hal  was,  also,  a 
small  horse,  yet  he  was  a  frequent  winner  at  all  distances;  and  what  is 
rare  in  our  country,  continued  to  run  with  distinction,  long  after  be  was 


From  this,  it  would  seem,  when  we  come  to  add  the  performances  of 
Trifle,  Little  Venus,  and  Bertrand  Jr.  and  some  others,  that  great  size 
is  not  indispensable  in  a  horse,  either  as  a  Stallion  or  a  Racer. 

1833. — Monday,  Feb.  25. — Jockey  Club  Races. — A  Sweepstakes; 
$500  entrance,  h.  f  ;  2  mile  heats. 

Col.  J.  B.  Richardson's  b.  f .  Julia,  3  yrs.  old,  by  Bertrand,  dam  Trans- 
port, 87  lbs., 11 

Col.  W.  R.  Johnson's  b.  c.  Herr  Cline,  3  yrs.  old,  by  Sir  Archy,  dam 

by  Gallatin,  90  lbs., ,.22 

Col.  Singleton's  ch,  f.,  3  years  old,  by  Crusader,  dam  Young  Lottery, 
was  entered,  but  paid  forfeit.  Time — 1st  heat,  3  m.  55  sec. ;  2d  heat, 
4  m.     Both  heats  won  easily. 

Wednesday,  Feb.  21. — Jockey  Club  Purse,  $1,000. — 4  mile  heats. 

Col.  Richardson's  ch.  h.  Bertrand  Junior,  5   yrs.  old,  by  Bertrand, 

dam  Transport,  112  lbs., 3        11 

W.  G.  Haun's  b.  f.   Rattlesnake,  3  yrs.  old,  by  Bertrand,  dam 

West  Paragon,  87  lbs., 2        3        2 

Col.  Singleton's  ch.  c.  Qodolphin,  4  yrs.  old,   by  Eclipse,  dam 

Sylph,  102  lbs., 12       dis. 

Time — 1st  heat,  1  m.  50  sec. ;  2d  heat,  8  m. ;  3d  heat,  8  m.  8  sec. 

Since  the  above  Race,  -1335,000  has  been  ofierec  and  reliised  for  Ber- 
trand, (the  sire  of  Bertrand,  Jr.,)  now  standing  in  Kentucky. 

Thursday/,  Feb.  28.— Jockey  Club  Purse,  $600. — 3  mile  heats, — Col. 
Richardson's  b.  m.  Little  Venus,  5  yrs.,  walked  over. 


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Same  day — Second  Mace. — Jockey  Club  Purse. — 2  mile  heats. 
Carrying  feathers. — Captain  Spann's  ch.  h.  Mucklejohn,  5  yrs.,  beat  Dr. 
Boyd's  gT.  g.  Speculator,  6  yrs.  Time — 4  m.  1  sec. ;  2d  heat,  4  m. 
■9  sec. 

Friday,  March  1. — Jockey  Club  Purse,  |400. — 2  mile  heats. 
Jockey  Club  weights.     Col.  Richardson's  b.  f.  Julia,  walked  over. 

Same  day — Second  Race — Jockey  Club  Purse. — 2  mile  heats,  car- 
rying a  feather. — Dr.  Boyd's  gr.  g.  Speculator  beat  Capt.  Spann's  ch. 
f.  Restless,  4  yrs.,  and  Mr.  Porcher's  b.  f.  Experiment,  3  yrs.  Time — 
1st  heat,  4  m.  2  sec. ;  2d  heat,  4  m.  4  sec. 

Saturday,  March  2. — Handicap  Race — 3  mile  heats. — Col.  Rich- 
ardson's ch.  h.  Bertrand,  Jr.,  walked  over. 

The  following  stakes  are  now  open  for  the  next  year,  over  the  Wash- 
ington Course.  All  communications  to  be  made  to  the  Secretary  of 
the  Club. 

We,  the  subscribers,  agree  to  run  a  Sweepstakes  over  the  Washington 
Course,  next  meeting,  with  colts  or  fillies,  3  years  old  ;  entrance  $200, 
h.  f. ;  2  mile  heats  ;  three  or  more  to  make  a  race — subject  to  rules  of 
said  Course ;  to  name  on  or  before  the  1st  day  of  September  next.  The 
Race  to  take  place  on  the  Monday  preceding  the  next  regular  South 
Carolina  Jockey  Club  Races. 

We,  the  subscribers,  agree  to  run  a  Posts  takes  over  the  Washington 
Course,  next  meeting,  entrance  $500,  h.  f.;  4  mile  heats — subject  to 
rules  of  said  Course.  Subscriptions  to  be  made  on  or  before  the  1st 
day  of  September  next,  but  the  horses  not  to  be  named  till  the  day  of 
the  Race.  The  Race  to  take  place  on  the  Tuesday  preceding  the  next 
regular  South  Carolina  Jockey  Club  Races. 

g^  A  CHALLENas  FOR  Ten  THOUSAND  DoLLARs ! — The  friends  of 
Julia,  by  Bertrand,  dam  Transport,  by  Virginius,  (hill  sister  to  Bertrand 
Junior,  now  the  property  of  Col.  James  B.  Richardson,)  propose  to  run 
her  against  any  horse  in  the  United  States,  foitr  mile  heats,  over  the 
Washington  Course,  on  the  Monday  preceding  the  next  regular  South 
Carolina  Jockey  Club  Races,  in  February  next,  for  the  above  sum  of 
$10,000.  The  rules  of  the  said  Club  to  govern  the  Race.  Julia  is  now 
three,  and  will  run  as  a  four  year  old.  This  challenge  to  be  accepted, 
and  the  horse  named  by  letter,  to  John  B.  Irving,  Esq.,  in  Charleston, 
on  or  before  the  15th  day  of  April  next,  and  the  stakes  to  be  deposited 
with  the  treasurer  of  the  Club,  on  the  Saturday  preceding  the  race,  h.  f. 

It  is  worthy  of  notice,  that  Col.  Richardson  won  all  the  main  Eacea 


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in  this  week,  and  also  the  Sweepstakes  (five  Races)  in  one  week.  Twice 
before  has  it  fallen  to  the  good  fortune  of  our  brethren  of  the  Turf  to 
win  all  the  purses  given  in  one  week  :  Gen.  Hampton  won  them  all  in 
1800  ;  Col.  Singleton  in  1827  ;  and  now  Col.  Richardson  in  1833. 

There  were  two  matches  (4  mile  heats)  made  last  year,  to  come  off 
this  season  in  South  Carolina,  awakening  much  expectation  from  the 
celebrity  of  the  horses  engaged.  The  one  was  between  Col.  W.  R. 
Johnson's  Bonnets  o'  Blue  and  Col.  James  B.  Richardson's  Little  Venus, 
to  be  decided  over  the  Columbia  Course,  S.  C,  and  the  other  between 
Col.  Johnson's  Andrew,  and  Col.  Richardson's  Bertrand,  Jr.  Both 
races,  $5,000  a  side.  The  first  named  match  was  decided  January  24, 
in  favor  of  Little  Venus,  in  one  heat ;  time,  8  m.  Bonnets  o'  Blue 
withdrawn  after  the  first  heat,  in  consequence  of  an  injury  received  in 
her  right  hind  hock,  of  so  serious  a  nature  as  to  incapacitate  her  from 
ever  again  appearing  on  the  Turf  Andrew  paid  forfeit  to  Bertrand, 
Jr.  He  was  complaining  too  much  in  one  of  his  hind  legs,  to  be 
trained. 

Hephestion  died  in  Virginia,  May  5th,  in  this  year,  aged  26  years. 

1834. —  Wednesday^  Feb.  26. — Jockey  Club  Purse. — 4  mile  heats, 
weight  for  age. 

Col.  Richardson's  ch.  h.  Bertrand,   Jr.,  6  yrs.,  by  Bertrand,   dam 

Transport, II 

W.  G.  Haun's  b.  c.  Plato,  4  yrs.,  by  Sir  William,  of  Transport,  dam 

Black-Eyed  Susan,  by  Tiger, 2        dr 

Time — 1st  heat,  V  m.  55  sec. 

Second  Race — Same  day. — Jockey  Club  Purse. — mile  heats,  carry- 
ing feathers. 

Mr.  Washington's  ch.  g.  Stono 11 

Mr.  Ancrum's  ch.  m.  Adelaide, 2        2 

Time — 1st  heat,  1  m.  59.  sec;  2d  heat,  2  m.  10  sec. 
Thursday,  Feb.  2*7.— Jockey  Club  Purse. — 3  mile  heats ;  weights  for 
age. 

W.  G.  Haun's  b.  f.  Rattlesnake,  4  yrs.,  by  Bertrand,  dam  Devil, 

by  West  Paragon, 11 

Col.  Richardson's  b.  m.  Little  Venus,  6  yrs.,  by  Sir  William,  dam  by 

Potomac, 22 

Mr.  Sinkler's  ch.  c.  Eutaw,  3  yr«.,  by  Archy,  jr.,  dam  Carolina,  by 

Buzzard, ...        3        3 

Time — 1st  heat,  5.45  ;  2d  heat,  5.55. 

Second  Race — Same  day. — Jockey  Club  Purse. — 2  mile  heats,  car- 
rying a  feather. 


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Col.  Richardson's  ch.  h.  Mucklejohn,  6  yrs.,  by  Mucklejohn,   dam  by 

Highflyer, 11 

Col.  Spann's  b.  f.  Mary  Jane,  3  yrs.,  by  Bolivar,  Jr.,  dam  by  Little 

Billy, 2 

W.  G.  Haun's  g.  c.  Gov.  Hamilton,  4  yrs  ,  by  Sir  Andrew,  dam 

by  Buonaparte, 3        dr. 

Time — 1st  heat,  3  m.  50  see. ;  2d  heat.  3  m.  58  sec. 

Friday,  Feb.^  28. — Jockey  Club  Purse. — 2  mile  heats;  weights  for 
age.  No  horse  allowed  to  start  that  is  not  under  5  years.  Distance 
Post,  90  yards. 

Col.  Richardson's  b.  f.  Julia,  4  yrs.,  by  Bertrand,   dam  by  Virginius,     1        1 
W.  G.   Haun's   ch.  c.  Little  Red,  3   yrs.,   by    Kosciusko,   dam  by 

Hamblotonian dis. 

Time — 3  m.  53  sec. 

The  Club  gave  a  small  purse  for  saddle  horses,  mile  heats,  catch 
weights,  which  was  won  by  Mr.  Dargun's  b.  h.  Nemo,  beating  in  two 
heats  Mr.  Haun's  g.  g.  Pickeoon,  Mr.  Richardson's  ch.  g.  Comet,  Mr. 
Prentiss'  ch.  m.  Lady  Louisa,  Mr.  Moye's  ch.  m.  Hannah  Jenkins,  and 
Mr.  John  Huger's  b.  g .  Hagan. 

Saturday,  March  1. — Handicap  Race. — 3  mile  heats. 

Col.  Richardson's  b.  m.  Little  Venus,  6  yrs.,  107  lbs.,      ...         1         1 
Mr.  Haun's  g.  c.  Gov.  Hamilton,  4  yrs.,  97  lbs.,      ....        2        2 

Time — 1st  heat,  5  m.  58  sec. ;  2d  heat,  5  m.  52  sec. 

The  contrast  in  size  between  these  two  contending  animals  was  very 
striking.  Gov.  Hamilton,  a  big  horse,  and  Little  Venus,  his  competitor, 
very  small,  as  her  name  designates  her  to  be.  As  she  would  hug  the 
pole  on  the  lead,  and  he  rush  up  to  her  from  time  to  time,  it  was  like  a 
big  boy  chasing  a  butterfly — the  one  light  and  airy,  as  if  on  wings,  like 
a  sioallow,  as  we  may  frequently  see  one,  skimminc/  along  the  ground, 
the  other  moving  with  a  powerful  stride,  and  shaking  the  earth,  making 
it  musical  with  the  sound  of  his  hoofs. 

Quadrupedante  putrem  sonitu  quatit  ungula  campum 

Same  day. — Club  gave  a  small  purse  for  a  second  Race,  best  3  in  5, 
catchweights.  Mr.  Haun's  ch.  h.  Little  Red  won  it,  beating  Mr.  Dar- 
gan's  bl.  h.  Nemo,  Mr,  Reardon's  b.  g.  Nullifier,  Mr.  Ancrum's  ch.  m. 
Adelheid,  Mr.  Grave's  ch.  g.  Snipe,  Mr.  Reynolds'  bl.  g.  Leadenwork, 
Mr.  Ruffin's  ch.  g.  Tom,  and  Dr.  Capers'  g.  h.  Eagle.  Nemo  won  the 
first  two  heats  in  1.58  and  2  m. ;  Little  Red  won  the  third  in  1  m.  59, 
distancing  the  field,  and  thus  terminated  the  Race. 

It  will  be  seen  that  at  this  meeting,  the  get  of  Bertrand  took  each  of 
the  regular  Jockey  Club  purses,  and  the  Handicap.    A  similar  com- 


€0 

plement  was  once  before  paid  to  their  ancestor,  imported  Bedford, 
when  Gallatin  also  took  the  Handicap;  and  more  recently  in  1823,  to 
Sir  Archy,  when  Childers  also  won  it.  The  success  of  Bertrand,  Jr., 
and  Julia,  establishes  the  power  of  the  Bedford  stock.  Their  sire  and 
dam  were  out  of  Bedford  mares. 

The  following  stakes  are  open  for  the  next  year,  over  the  Washington 
Course : 

1.  A  Sweepstake  for  all  ages,  to  run  on  the  Monday  preceding  the 
next  regular  South  Carolina  Jockey  Club  Races  ;  $100  entrance,  h.  f., 
mile  heats  ;  to  close  1st  of  August.  Three  or  more  to  make  a  race. 
Weight  for  age. 

2.  A  Sweepstake  for  three  year  old  colts  and  fillies,  to  run  on  the 
Tuesday  preceding  the  next  regular  South  Carolina  Jockey  Club  Races  ; 
$200  entrance ;  h.  f.  2  mile  heats ,  to  close  1st  of  August.  Three  or 
more  to  make  a  race.     Weight  for  age. 

To  the  latter  stake  there  are  already  three  entrances. 

Mr.  Paul  Fitzsimons  names  Pauline,  3  yrs.  old,  by  Crusader,  dam 
Sally  Melville,  by  Virginian  ;  W.  Sinkler  names  ch.  c.  Sir  Kenneth,  3 
yrs.  old,  by  Crusader,  out  of  Carolina,  by  Buzzard.  Mr,  Richardson 
names  b.  f.  Betsey  Eccles,  3  yrs.,  by  Archy  Montorio,  dam  by  Whipster. 

It  was  with  great  regret  that  the  Club  received  intelligence  this 
season  of  the  inability  of  Col.  McPherson,  from  ill  health,  any  longer  to 
discharge  the  duties  of  President  of  the  Club.  The  following  resolution 
was  passed  by  the  Club  on  the  occasion : 

"  That  the  best  and  kindest  expressions  of  the  Club  be  tendered  to 
Col.  McPherson,  for  the  urbane  and  impartial  manner  in  which  he  has 
for  very  many  years  presided  over  its  meetings  ;  that  the  Club  sympa- 
thises with  him  in  the  cause  which  has  occasioned  his  retirement  from 
office,  and  unanimously  elect  him  an  honorary  member  for  life." 

Col.  Thomas  Pinckney  was  elected  President  in  his  place,  and  James 
Rose,  Esq.,  Vice-President. 

1835. — Monday,  Feb.  9. — Citizens'  Purse,  $1,000. — 3  mile  heats, 
weight  for  age. 

Mr.  Waldon's  br.  c.   Argyle,  4   yrs.   old,  by  Monsieur  Tonson,  dam 

Thistle,  by  Oscar,  102  lbs., II 

Mr.  Haun's  b.  m.  Rattlesnake,  5  yrs.  old,  by  Bertrand,  dam  Devil,  by 

West  Paragon,  109  lbs., 2        2 

Mr.  Montmollin's  br.  m.  Alborak,  5  yrs.  old,  by  Sumter,  dam  Mary 

•  Bedford,  by  Imp.  Bedford,  109  lbs., 3        3 

Col.  Fitzsimons'  ch.  f.  Rushlight,  4  yrs.  old,  by  Sir  Archy,  dam  by 

Pacolet,  99  lbs., 4        dr. 

Time — 5  m.  46  sec. ;  5  m.  51  sec. 


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Monday,  Feb.  16. — Proprietor's  Purse. — Mile  heats,  carrying  feathers. 

Mr.  Montmollin's  br.  m.  Alborak,  5  yrs.  old,  by  Sumter,  dam  Mary  Bed- 
ford, by  Imp.  Bedford, 11 

Mr.  Walden's  gr.  f.  Chestatee,  3  yrs.  old,  by  Bertrand,  dam  by  Gallatin,  2        2 

Dr.  Boyd's  ch.  g.  Dangerfield,  5  yrs.  old,  by  Character,  dam  by  Dion,     .  3         dr. 

J.  L.  Wilson's  ch.  g.  William,  5  yrs.  old,  by  Sir  Archy,  dam  by  G-allatin,  dis. 

Dr.  Jas.  Heyward's  ro.  g.  Talleyrand,  3  yrs.  old,  by  Macoboy,  dam  by 

Pocotaligo, bolted. 

Time — 1  ra.  55  sec. ;   1  ra.  54|-  sec. 

Tuesday,  Feb.  \*J. — Sweepstakes  for  colts   and  fillies   3   years  old 
weight  for  age. — 2   mile  heats  for  colts  and  fillies  3  years  old.     Wm. 
Sinkler's  cih.  c.  Sir  Kenneth,  3  yrs.  old,  by  Crusader,  dam   Carolina,  by 
Buzzard,  walked  over.     Col.  Fitzsimons'  Pauline,  by  Crusader,   and   Mr. 
Richardson's  b.  f.  Betse  Eccles  paid  forfeit. 

Wednesday,  Feb.   18. — Jockey   Club  Purse,  |1,000. — 4   mile  heats, 
weight  for  age. 

Mr.  Walden's  br.  c.  Argyle,  4  yrs.  old,  by  Monsieur  Tonson,  dam 

Thistle,  by  Oscar,  102  lbs., 11 

Col.  Spann's  ch.  h.  Bertrand,  jr.,  aged,  by  Bertrand,  dam  Transport, 

by  Virginius,  126  lbs  , 2        2 

Time — 8  m.  5  sec. ;  8  m.  8  sec. 

Same  day — Second  Race. — Jockey  Club  Purse. — 2  mile  heats. 

Mr.  Montmollin's  b.  m.  Molly  Longs,  5  yrs.  old,  by  Sumter,  dam 

Sophy  AVynn,  by  Blackburn's  Buzzard,  109  lbs.,         ..11 

Mr.  McCra's  b.  g.  Conrad,    aged,   by  Kosciusko,  dam  Duck  Filly, 

123  lbs., 2        2 

Time — 4  m.  3  sec. ;  4  m.  1 1  sec. 

Thursday,   Feb.    19. — Jockey    Club    Purse,    $600. — 3    mile    heats, 
weight  for  age. 

Mr.  Haun's  b.  m.  Rattlesnake,  5  yrs.  old,  by  Bertrand,  dam  Devil, 

by  West  Paragon,  109  lbs., -.411 

Mr.  Walden's  b.  h.  Herr  Cline,  5  yrs.  old,  by  Sir  Archy,  dam  by 

Gallatin,  112  lbs.,         ...  ....     3      2     2 

Col.  Fitzsimmons'  b.  f.  Fanny  Richards,  4   yrs.    old,  by   Maryland 

Eclipse,  dam  Betsey  Richards,  99  lbs,         .         .         .        .     1      3      dr. 

Col.  Spann's  ch.  h.  Mucklejohn,  aged,   by  Mucklejohn,  dam  by 

Marske,  126  lbs., 5    b. 

Mr.  Montmollin's  br.  m.  Alborak,  5  yrs.  old,  by  Sumter,  dam  Mary 

Bedford,  by  Imp.  Bedford,  109  lbs., 2    dis. 

Col.  Sinkler's  ch.  e.  Eutaw,  4  yrs.  old,  by  Sir  Archy,  jr.,  dam  Caro- 
lina, by  Buzzard,  102  lbs. dis. 

Time — 5  m.  58  sec;  5  m.  54  sec;  6  m.  10  sec. 

Same  day — Second  Race. — Jockey  Club  Purse. — 2  mile  heats. 


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Mr.  MontmoUin's  ch.  m.  Patsey  Wallace,  5  yra.  old,  by  Alexander, 

dam  by  Robin  Gray,  109  lbs., 11 

Dr.  Boyd's   ch.  g.  Dangerfield,   5  yrs.  old,  by  Character,    dam  by 

Dion,  109  lbs.,     , 2        2 

Time — 4  ra.  3  sec;  4  m.  11  sec. 

Friday,  Feb.  20. — Jockey  Club  Purse,  $400. — 2  mile  heats,  weight 
for  age.     No  horse  allowed  to  start  that  is  not  under  5  yrs. 
Col.  Fitzsimmons'  ch.  f.  Rushlight,  4  yrs.  old,   by  Sir  Archy,  dam 

by  Pacolet,  99  lbs., 11 

Mr.  McCra's  ch.  c.  Minor,  4  yrs.  old,  by  Clermont,  dam  Lecadoe,  by 

Potomac,  102  lbs., 2        2 

Col.  Spann's  ch.  c  Little  Davy,  4  yrs.  old,  by  Archy  Montorio,  dam 

by  Goldfinder,  102  lbs., 3        3 

Mr.  Haun's  b.  f.  Betsey  Eckle,    3   yrs.  old,  by  Sir  Archy  Montorio, 

dam  by  Whipster,  87  lbs., 4        dis. 

Time — 3  m.  56  sec. ;  3  m.  59  sec. 

Same  day — Second  Race. — Mile  heats,  carrying  feathers. 

Mr.  Miller's  ch.  c.  Le  Bleux,  4  yrs.  old,  by  Eclipse,  dam  by  Florizel,        1        1 
Mr.  Mitchell's  b.  m.  Coquette,  aged,  by  Richard,  dam  full  sister  to 

Transport,  by  Virginius, 2        2 

Time — 1  m.  57  sec. ;  1  m.  59  sec. 

Saturday,  Feb.  21. — Handicap  Race,  purse  $410. — 3  mile  heats. 

Mr  MontmoUin's  ch.  m.  Patsey  Wallace,  5  yrs.  old,  by  Alexander, 

dam  by  Robin  Gray,  handicapped  to  carry  94  lbs.,     ..11 

Col.  Spann's  ch.  h.  Bertrand,  jr.,  aged,  by  Bertrand,  dam  Transport, 

by  Virginius,  handicapped,  110  lbs., 2        2 

Mr.  McCra's  br  g.  Conrad,  aged,  by  Kosciusko,  dam  Duck  Filly, 

handicapped,  a  feather, 3        dis. 

Time — 6  m.  1  sec. ;  5  m.  51  see. 

The  last  race  Mucklejohn  will  ever  make  was  the  one  he  made  on 
the  3  mile  day,  as  above  reported.  His  left  fore  leg,  which  had  been 
seriously  injured  during  his  severe  campaign  in  Virginia,  in  1833,  and 
from  which  he  had  never  fully  recovered,  has  given  way,  and  let  down 
in  the  back  sinew.  He  is  now  withdrawn  from  the  Turf,  and  will  stand 
as  a  stallion  at  Statesburg,  S.  C. 

Mucklejohn  was  a  fine  race  horse,  but  unfortunate  in  his  career.  He 
had  been  badly  broke,  having  been  permitted  to  take  his  exercise  in 
training,  with  an  unmanageable  filly,  who  would  always  run  ahead  of 
him — taking  the  lead  from  him,  by  which  he  got  in  the  habit  of  follow- 
ing, and  would  always  stop,  when  he  saw  nothing  in  advance ;  hence  he 
contracted  the  habit,  and  became  a  bolter,  losing  many  a  race  by  this 
trick,  that  he  would  otherwise  have  won. 

Mucklejohn  is  of  a  beautiful  dark  chesnut  color,  with  no  white,  six- 
teen hands  high,  and  finely  proportioned.     He  was  got  by  old  Muckle- 


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John,  dam  by  Hugh  Wiley's  Marske.     He  was   at  Greensborough,  Ga., 
on  the  loth  April,  1827. 

1836. —  Wednesday,  Feb.  17.— Jockey  Club  Purse  of  $1,000.-4  mile 
heats,  weight  for  age. 

Colonel  Crowell's  br.  m.  Lady  Nashville,  5  yrs.  old,  by  Stockholder, 

dam  by  Imp.  Strap,  109  lbs., 3      11 

Col.  E.  Richardson's  ch.  f.  Lady  Morgan,  4  yrs.  old,  by  John  Rich- 
ards, dam  by  Imp.  Expedition,  99  lbs.,       .         .         .         .12      2 

Mr.  Winter's  ch.  c.  Hickory  John,    4  yrs.  old,    by  John   Richards, 

dam  by  Hickory,  102  lbs., 2     dr. 

Dr.  Guignard's  gr.  c.  Bowdark,  4  yrs.  old,  by  Medley,  dam  Merino 

Ewe,  102  lbs., dia 

Time — 7  m.  51  sec;  7  m.  58  sec.;  8  m.  10  sec. 

Bowdark  cari'ied  7  lbs.  over  weight,  which  may  account  for  his  being 
distanced.  Lady  Morgan  and  Hickory  John  made  all  the  running  the 
first  heat.  The  2d  and  3d  heats  were  closely  and  beautifully  contested 
by  Lady  Nashville  and  Lady  Morgan. 

Thursday,  Feb.  18. — Jockey  Club  Purse  of  $600. — 3  mile  heats, 
weight  for  age. 

Dr.  Guignard's  ch.  c.  Sir  Kenneth,  4  yrs.  old,  by  Crusader,  dam  Ca- 
rolina by  Buzzard,  102  lbs., 11 

Col.  E.  Richardson's  br.  c.  Sam  Chiffney,  4  yrs.  old,  by  Imp.  Mufti, 

dam  by  Vampire,  102  lbs., .        2        dis. 

Col.  Miller's  ch.  f.  Mattewan,  3  yrs  old,  by  Crusader,  grandam  by 

Rossicuician,  87  lbs.,        .        .  3        dis. 

Time — 6  m. ;  6  m.  8  sec. 

Friday,  Feb.  19. — Jockey  Club  Purse  of  |400. — 2  mile  heats,  weight 

for  age.     No  horse  allowed  to  start  that  is  not  under  5  years. 

Col.  Singleton's  br.  f.  Pomona,"'  3  yrs.  old,  by  Chateau  Margaux, 

dam  Marianne  by  Cervantes,  87  lbs., 4      11 

Col.  E.  Richardson's  b.  c.  Vertumnus,  4  yrs.  old,  by  Eclipse,  dam  by 

Defiance,  102  lbs., 12     2 

Mr.  Winter's  ch.  f.  Sally  Jenkins,  4  yrs.  old,  by  Bemadotte,  dam  by 

Gallatin,  99  lbs., 2    dis. 

Mr.   Guignard's   b.  f.  Hebe,    3   yrs.  old,  by  Gohanna,  dam  by  Sir 

Charles,  87  lbs.,  .        .        . 3    dis. 

Time — 4  m.;  3  m.  50  sec;  3  m.  51  sec. 

Same  day — Second  Race. — $100  given  by  the  Club,  entrance  money 
added. — 2  mile  heats,  weight  for  age. 


*  Pomona  (imported  filly)  out  of  Marianne,  dam  of  the  celebrated  English  race- 
horse Medoro.  The  2d  and  3d  heats,  it  will  be  remembered,  were  done  in  the  very 
good  time  of  3  m.  50  sec.  and  3  m.  51  sec,  the  filly  winning  easily,  and  hard  in 
hand. 


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Captain  Rowe's  ch.  f.  Eliza  Hicks,  4  yrs.  old,  by  Timoleon,  dam  by 

Potomac,  99  lbs., 11 

John   Singleton's  b.  h.  Fitz-James,  5  yrs.  old,  by  Crusader,  dam 

Augusta  by  Sir  Archy,  112  lbs., 2        dis. 

Time — 4  m.  2  sec. ;  3  m.  57  sec. 

Saturday,  Feb.   20. — A   Handicap  Race;    Purse   $582.93. — 3  mile 

beats. 

Col.  E.  Richardson's  Vertumnus,  handicapped  to  carry  92  lbs.,         .        1        1 
Col.  Crowell's  Lady  Nashville,  handicapped  to  carry  109  lbs.,  .        2        2 

Dr.  Guignard's  Sir  Kenneth,  handicapped  to  carry  102  lbs.,     ..33 

Time — 6  m.  7  sec. ;  5  m.  47  sec. 

Vertumnus  and  Lady  Nashville  ran  locked  the  whole  of  the  2d  heat, 
Vertumnus  winning  hy  a  head  only. 

Same  day — Second  Race. — $100  given  by  the  Club,  entrance  money 

added. — Mile  heats  ;  best  3  in  5  ;  weight  for  age. 

Capt.  Rowe's  Eliza  Hicks,  99  lbs, Ill 

Dr.  Guignard's  Bowdark,  102  lbs., 2     2     2 

Time — 1  m.  55  sec;  1  m.  57  sec. ;  1  m.  56  sec, 
Tuesday.,  Feb.  23. — Citizens'  Purse  o^f  $1,000. — 3   mile  heats,  weight 
for  age.  ' 

Col.  E.  Richardson's  Lady  Morgan,  99  lbs., 3      11 

Mr.  Winter's  Hickory  John,*  102  lbs., 12     2 

Dr.  Guignard's  ch.  g.  Clodhopper, 2     dis. 

Mr.  Ferguson's  b.  h.  Saladin,  5  yrs.  old,  by  Crusader,  dam  Onea  by 

Pocotaligo,  112  lbs., bit. 

Time — 5  m.  52  sec. ;  5  m.  52  sec. ;  6  m.  6  sec. 

The  following  stakes  are  now  open  for  the  next  annual  meeting,  1837. 

1.  A  Sweepstake  for  3  year  old  colts  and  fillies,  2  mile  heats;  $600 
entrance,  h.  f.  Weight  for  age.  To  name  on  or  before  the  1st  day  of 
June  next.  Three  or  more  to  make  a  race.  To  be  run  for  on  the  Mon- 
day preceding  the  regular  races. 

2.  A  Poststake,  4  mile  heats,  $1,000  entrance.  To  be  run  for  on  the 
Tuesday  preceding  the  regular  races.  Subscriptions  to  this  stake  to  be 
made  with  the  stewards  on  the  evening  previous  to  the  race  ;  but  the 
horses  not  to  be  named  until  the  hour  of  starting. 

This  year,  on  the  2d  day  of  January,  the  celebrated  and  distinguished 
racer  Rowton  was  imported  by  Dr.  Merritt  for  Col.  Hampton  and 
Messrs.  Merrits.     He  was  landed  at  City  Point,  in  Virginia. 

*  It  is  but  justice  to  Hickory  John  to  remark,  that  he  was  in  such  bad  condition 
his  groom  was  alone  induced  to  start  him  from  an  unwillingness  to  disappoint  the 
public.  Nevertheless,  by  the  time  he  made  in  the  two  first  heats,  although  beaten, 
he  nobly  sustained  his  reputation. 


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Rowton  was  bred  by  Mr.  Allen,  and  foaled  in  1826.  He  was  got  by 
Oiseau,  dam  Katherina  by  Woful.  He  has  won  some  fine  races  in 
England,  and  is  as  beautiful  a  horse  as  ever  looked  through  a  bridle. 

Horses  starting  for  any  of  the  second  races,  for  purses  given  by  the 
Club,  are  now  required  to  carry  weight  for  age. 

1837. —  Wednesday,  Feb.  22.— Jockey  Club  Purse,  Si, 000. — 4  mile 
heats,  weight  for  age. 

Col.  Hampton's  b.  m.  Bay  Maria,  5  yrs.  old,  by  Eclipse,  dam  Lady 

Lightfoot,  109  lbs., 4      11 

Col.  Fludd'sch.  c  Rienzi,  3  yrs.  old,  by  Bertrand,  jr.,  dam  Carolina 

by  Buzzard,  90  lbs., 3      3      2 

Mr.  Winter's  g.  c.  Kite.  3  yrs.  old,  by  Bullock's  Mucklejohn,  dam 

Eliza  Splotch,  90  lbs., 12     3 

Col.  Edward  Richardson's  ch  m.  Lady  Morgan,  5  yrs.  old,  by  John 

Richards,  dam  by  Imp.  Expedition,  109  lbs.,       .         .        .     2     dr. 

Mr.  Richard  Richardson's  ch.  f.  Sweet  Emma,  3  yrs.  old,  by  Muckle- 
john, dam  Desdemona,  87  lbs., dis. 

Time — 8  m.  3  .see;  8  m.  5  sec;  8  m.  9  sec. 

Bay  Maria  took  the  track  from  the  start  in  the  two  last  heats,  and 
was  never  headed,  which  may  account  for  the  indifferent  time.  Kite 
won  the  first  heat  cleverly,  and  Rienzi,  although  "  the  last  of  Romans," 
promises  in  another  year,  if  properly  managed,  to  prove  the  first  of 
horses. 

Thursday,  Feb.  23. — Jockey  Club  Purse,  $600. — 3  mile  heats,  weight 
for  age. 

Dr.  Guignard's  ch.  g.  Clodhopper,  4  yrs.  old,  99  lbs.,        ...        1        1 
Col.  Spann's  ch.  m.  Betsey  Baxter,  4  yrs.  old,  by  Crusader,  dam  by 

Little  Billy,  99  lbs.,     ....  ...        3        2 

Col.  Hampton's  ch.  c.  Lath,  3  yrs  old,  by  Godolphin,  dam  Pocahon- 
tas, 90  lbs., 2        dr. 

Time — 6  m. ;  6  m.  8  sec. 

Clodhopper  pulled  up  in  last  heat,  winning  easily.     Lath  was  only 
started  in  1st  heat,  to  afford  sport,  as  he  was  evidently  amiss. 
Same  day — Second  Race. — 2  mile  heats. — $80  given  by  Club. 

Captain  Rowe's  b.  h.  Vertumnus,  5  yrs.  old,  by  Eclipse,  dam  by  De- 
fiance, 112  lbs.,  .  11 

Mr.  Richardson's  ch.  m.  Fanella,   5   yrs.   old,   by   Claremont,  dam 

Goldfinder,  109  lbs., 3        2 

Capt.  Spann's  b.  g.  Dangerfield,  aged,  123  lbs.,         .         ...        2        dr. 

Time — 4  m.  6  sec. ;  4  m.  8  sec. 

Friday,  Feb.  24. — Jockey  Club  Purse,  $400. — 2  mile  heats,  weight 
for  age.     No  horse  allowed  to  start  that  is  not  under  5  years. 
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Col.  Hampton's  ch   f  Kitty  Heath,  3  yrs.  old,  by  Eclipse,  dam  by 

i\lfred,  87  Ib^  , 4      11 

Col.  Fluid's  ch   f  MissWiiddy,  4  yrs   old,  by  Sir  Charles,  dam  by 

Alfred,  99  lbs  , 12      2 

Mr.  Winter's:  b  o  Southerner,  3  yrs   old,  by  Bullock's  Mucklejohn, 

dam  by  American  Eclipse,  90  lbs  , 2      3      3 

Mr.  Taylor's  ch.  f  Daisy,  3  yrs.  old,  by  Godolphin,  dam  Lady  of 

the  Lake,  87  lbs  , 3     dis. 

Time — 3  m.  55  sec. ;  8  m.  56  .sec. ;  4  m.  2^  sec.     Won  easily. 

Kittv  Heath  and  Daisy  in  1st  heat  carried  3  lbs.  over  weight ;  in  2d 
heat,  Daisy  carried  proper  weipjhts,  Kitty  Heath  still  with  3  lbs.  over 
weio'ht. 

Saturdmj,  Feb.  25. — Handicap  Race. — Purse,  $640.75. — 3  mile 
heats, 

Dr  Guignard's  ch.  g.  Clodhopper,  4  yrs.  old,  99  lbs  ,       ...  1  1 

Capt.  Spann's  b  g  Dangerfield,  aged,  87  lbs  ,         .         .         .         .  2  2 
Mr.  Richardson's  ch.  m.  Fanella,  5   yrs.  old,    by  Claremont,    dam 

by  Goldfinder,  a  feather 3  3 

Time — 5  m.  59  sec. ;  6  ra.  2  sec.     Won  easily, 

Tuesday,  Feb.  28.— Citizens'  Purse,  Si, 200. — 3  mile  heats,  weight 

for  age. 

Col.  Hampton's  ch.  f.  Kitty  Heath,  3  yrs.  old,  by  Eclipse,  dam  by 

Alfred,  87  lbs  , 1         1 

Dr.  Guignards  ch  g.  Clodhopper,  4  yrs.  old,  99 lbs  ,         .         .         .        2        2 
Col.  Fludd's  ch.  c-  Rienzi,  3  yrs.  old,  by  Bertrand,  jr.,  dam  Carolina 

by  Buzzard,  90  lbs , 3        3 

Time — 5  m.  54  sec;  5  m.  59  sec. 

Col.  Hampton's  ch.  f.  Charlotte  Russe,  full  sister  to  Trifle,  and  Col. 
Singleton's  br.  m.  Medora,  imp.,  were  entered,  but  did  not  start,  both 
proving  ami.ss. 

To  the  honor  of  Col.  Hampton,  it  should  be  noticed,  that  he  entered 
Kitty  Heath  at  the  post  from  the  most  disinterested  motives — in  order, 
that  as  two  of  the  favorite  nags  were  prevented  from  starting,  the  citizens 
should  not  be  disappointed  in  a  race,  the  best  he  had  it  in  his  power  to 
aff"ord  fi'om  his  .stable  ;  with  the  distinct  understanding  also,  that  should 
Kitty  Heath  win,  the  pur.se  should  go  towards  defraying  the  expenses  of 
a  new  grand  stand  for  the  ladies,  about  to  be  erected  on  the  Washing- 
ton Course. 

Same  day — Second  Race. — Mile  heats,  $220. 

Capt.  Rowe's  ch.  ra.  Lady  Morgan,  5   yrs.  old,  by  John  Richards, 

dam  by  Imp.  Expedition,  109  lbs., 2      11 

Capt.  Spann's  cb.  f.  Betsey  Baxter,  4  yrs.  old,  by  Crusader,  dam  by 

Little  Billy,  99  lbs., 4     3     2 

Mr.  Richardson's  ch.  f.  Sweet  Emma,  3  yrs.  old,  by  Mucklejohn, 

dam  Desdemona,  87  lbs., 3     2     3 

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Capt.  Harrison's  b.  f.  Flora  McDonald,  3  yrs.  old,  by  Eclipse,  dam 

by  Timoleon,  87  lbs., I     4      dr. 

Time — 1  m.  53  sec. ;  1  m.  56  sec. ;  1  m.  59  sec. 

At  a  meeting  of  the  South  Carolina  Jockey  Club,  held  February  28, 
183Y,  the  following  resolutions  were  unanimously  passed  : 

Resolved,  That  the  thanks  of  this  Club  be  presented  to  Col.  Hampton, 
for  his  very  disinterested  conduct  in  coming  forward  this  day,  and  tend- 
ing the  use  of  his  stable  of  horses  to  the  Club,  by  which  a  very  hand- 
some purse  has  been  added  to  the  funds  of  the  Club,  and  the  sports  of 
the  citizens  promoted. 

Resolved,  That  the  officers  of  the  Club  cause  to  be  procured  a  suit- 
able plate  or  cup,  with  an  appropriate  inscription,  and  that  the  same  be 
presented  to  Col.  Hampton  in  the  name  of  this  Club,  in  testimony  of 
the  deep  sense  entertained  of  his  high-minded  disinterestedness  and 
worth. 

At  an  extra  meeting  of  the  Club,  held  on  the  18th  day  of  May  of  thia 
year,  a  Communication  was  read  by  Col.  Hampton,  presenting,  in  the 
name  of  Mr.  Tattersall,  of  London,  a  Whip,  to  be  run  for  upon  the 
principles  which  govern  the  Whip  Race  in  England.     It  was — 

Resolved,  by  the  Club,  That  the  Whip  be  accepted  in  the  same  spirit 
with  which  it  is  tendered,  and  that  it  be  designated  as  the  Tattersall 
Whip,  and  to  be  run  for  in  accordance  with  the  wishes  and  objects  of 
the  donor.     It  was  further — 

Resolved,  That  the  Secretary  cause  to  be  conveyed  to  Mr.  Tattersall, 
the  acknowledgments  of  this  Club,  for  his  very  acceptable  present,  as- 
suring him  of  the  respect  the  vSouth  Carolina  Jockey  Club  entertains  for 
one,  not  only  so  distinguished  at  home,  as  an  honorable  and  liberal  Pat- 
ron of  the  Turf,  but  also  as  a  promoter  of  its  legitimate  ends,  the  im- 
provement of  the  breed  of  horses  in  other  countries. 

It  was  further — 

Resolved,  That  Mr.  Tattersall  be,  and  is  hereby,  unanimously  elected 
an  Honorary  M'^mber  of  the  South  Carolina  Jockey  Club. 

It  was  then  agreed,  that  the  Whip  should  be  run  for  on  the  following 
conditions : 

The  Tattersall  Whip. — To  be  run  for  by  Members  of  the  Jockey 
Club  only. — The  first  year,  twenty  dollars  entrance  only — four  miles 
out — to  be  run  for  on  the  Monday  after  the  regular  race  week,  weights 
to  be  carried  according  to  the  rules  of  the  South  Carolina  Jockey  Club. 
Whenever  challenged  after  the  first  year,  to  be  run  for,  added  to  a 
sweepstakes  of  two  hundred  dollars  each  ;  only  one  horse,  the  property 


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of  end)  inenil)3-,  to  be  allowed  to  start;  the  "Whip  to  remain  in  the  pos- 
session of  the  winner,  until  produced  to  be  again  run  for. 

The  Secretary  of  the  CUib  promptly  complied  with  the  instructions 
cr'weci  him  in  the  above  resolutions,  and  addressed  a  letter  to  Mr.  Tat- 
tersall,  informino;  him  of  his  election  as  an  Honorary  Member,  accom- 
panied by  such  remarks  as  were  called  for  by  the  occasion.  To  this  letter 
Mr.  Tattersall  replied  as  follows  : 

Hyde  Park  Corner,  London,  5ih  Sept.,  1837. 
To  John  B.  Irving,  Esq.: 

Sir, — I  beg  to  acknowledge  the  receipt  of  your  letter,  with  the  pleas- 
ing information  of  the  honor  done  me,  by  electing  me  an  Honorary 
Member  of  the  South  Carolina  Jockey  Club  ;  and  by  accepting  the  Whip, 
(tritliiig  as  it  was,)  an  lionor,  I  assure  you,  I  did  not  contemplate  ;  there- 
fore, the  more  flattering  to  my  feelings,  and,  also,  for  the  name  given  the 
Whip,  which  will  keep  me  in  your  memory  ;  and  rest  assured,  I  shall 
always  be  ready,  on  d\\  occasions^  to  assist,  as  a  member  of  the  Club, 
with  my  advice,  in  tlie  furtlierance  of  every  thing  that  may  conduce 
to  the  prosperity  or  benefit  of  the  Club,  or  racing  generally  in  America. 

I  beg,  sii',  YOU  will  make  known  to  the  members  of  the  South  Caro- 
lina Jockey  Club,  how  very  sensible  I  am  of  the  lionor  done  me  ;  and 
as  for  yourself,  of  whom  I  have  heard  much  from  my  friends  and  son, 
accept  my  thanks,  hoping  you  will  many  years  fill  the  situation  you  do 
honor  to,  and  that  each  revolving  year  may  add  new  laurels  to  the  Ameri- 
can Turf. 

Yours  truly, 

Richard  Tattersall. 

This  year,  it  was  resolved  to  remove  the  Starting  Post  and  Stands  from 
the  southeast  corner  of  the  Course,  (where  they  had  been  standing  from 
the  first  laying  out  of  the  track,)  to  a  position  more  favorable  in  every 
respect — namelv,  the  northwest  corner  of  the  Course  ;  and  as  the  Course 
was  found  to  be  about  40  feet  short  of  a  mile,  by  a  careful  survey,  it 
was  extended  to  the  proper  length.  Henceforth,  be  it  known  to  all  con- 
cerned, that  the  Washington  Course  is  a  full  mile,  and  that  all  perform- 
ances upon  it  are  entitled  to  credit  accordingly. 

From  and  after  this  meeting,  it  is  determined  that  horses  shall  be  en- 
tered w'.th  the  stewards,  by  sealed  entries,  on  the  evening  previous  to  the 
race  for  which  they  are  to  contend,  before  9  o'clock,  P.  M.  No  Post  en- 
trance ;  and  that  horses  running  for  the  Citizen's  Purse,  as  well  as  for  those 
that  start  for  the  Produce  Stakes,  shall  be  handicapped,  without  being 
obliged  to  start  for  one  of  the  Jockey  Club  Purses. 


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1838. — Tlie  races  ovor  the  Washington  Course  near  Ch.iileston,  cora- 

menceil  this  year  on  Satiinla^-,  Fob.  17. 

Citizen's  Purse,  $1,000. —  3  mile  heats,  weight  for  age. 

Dr.  Oiiignard's  ch.  g.  Clodhopper,  5  yrs,  109  lbs  ,    .        •  .12      1 

Col.  WcCargo's  ch.  h.  Qenito,  4  yrs.  old,  by  Eclipse,  dam  by  Packen- 

hnin,  102  lbs., 3      12 

Lovell  it   Hiimmond's  cb.  c.  Gerow,  3  yrs.  olJ,  by  Ucnry,  out  of 

Vi.^en,  90  lbs. 433 

Col.  Spann's  b.  c.  Convention,  4  yrs  ,  by  Bertrand,  out  of  Poor  Girl, 

102  lbs. 244 

Tim 3 — 6  m.  6  sec.;  6  m.,  5  sec;  6  m.  13  sec. 

Monday,  Feb.  19. — S\v(.'epstakes  for  3  j'ear  olds. — 2  mih)  lieats. — $300 
entranfe,|100  forfeit,  weight  for  age. — 3  year  olds. — Colts  90  lbs.,  fillies 
allowed  3  lbs. 

Col.  Hampton's  b.  f.  Emily,  imp'd.,  by  Emilius,  dam  Elizabeth,  by 

Rainbow 11 

James  Sinklei'e  ch.  f.  Jeannette  Berkley,  by  Bertrand  Jr.,  out  of 

Carolina,  by  Buzzard,  .......        2        2 

Col.  Singleton's  ch  c  ,  by  Luzborough,  dam  Phenomena,  by  Archy,  pd.  ft. 

Col  Flu  Ill's  c.,  by  Bertrand  Jr.,  oum  of  Grey  Girl,  by  Buzzard,        .  " 

Col.  Alston's  b.  f  Lilly,  imp'd,  by  The  Colonel,  out  of  Fleur  de  Lis,  " 

Mr.  James  Rose's  b.  c.  imp'd  .Monarch, by  Priam,  out  of  Delphine, 

by  Whisker, " 

Mr.  John  S.  Preston's  b.  f.,  imp'd,  by  Priam,  out  of  sister  to  Sper- 
maceti,    " 

Mr.  Powell  MeCra,  Jr,  gr.  c.  Grizzle,  by  Godolphin,  dam  by  Finan- 
cier,         " 

E.  Mikell  Seabrook's  ch.  f.,  by  Luzzborough,  out  of  Mis3  Midway, 

by  Kosciusko, " 

Col.  John  S.  Ashe's  ch   f.,  by  Godolphin,  out  of  Sally  Taylor,  by 

Kosciusko, " 

Time — 1st  heat,  4  m.  2^  sec;  2d  heat,  4  ni.  1  sec. 
Tuesday,  Feb.  20.— Jockey  Club  Purse,  $260. — 2  mile  heats,  weight 
for  age. 

Col.  Fludd's  b.  f.  Lily,  imp.,  3  yrs.,  by  the  Colonel,  out  of  Fleur  de 

Li.s  87  lbs , 11 

Mr.  Newby's  gr.  g.  Hardheart,  aged,  by  Mercury,  dam  by  Chuck-a- 

luck,  123  lbs.,      .        .        • 2       dr. 

Col.  Spann's  b.  c.   Falcon,  3   yrs.   old,  by  Bertrand,  dam   by  Sir 

Charles,  90  lbs., dis. 

Time — 4  ui. 

Wednesday,  Feb.  21.— Jockey   Club  Purse,  $1,000 — 4   mile  lieats, 
weight  for  age. 

Col.  McCargo's  b.  c.  Steele,  3  yrs.  old,  by  imp.  Flyde,  out  of  the  dam 

of  Sally  Eubank.s  90  lbs., 11 

Col.  Harapion's  ch.  f.  Charlotte  Russe,  4  yrs.  old,  full  sister  to  Trifle, 

99  lbs., 2        2 


10 

LoTell  &  Hammond's  ch.  c.  John  Quedron,  3  yrs.  old,  by  Bertrand, 

out  of  Nancy  Hare,  by  Percussion,  90  lbs.,        ...        3        3 

Col.  Spann's  cb.  f.  Dorabella,  4  yrs.  old,  by  Bertrand  Jr.,  out  of  the 

dam  of  Venus,  99  lbs., dis. 

Col.  Fludd's  ch.  c.  Rienzi,  4  yrs.  old,  by  Bertrand  Jr.,  dam  Carolina, 

by  Buzzard,  102  lbs., dis. 

Time — 8  m.  5^  sec;  8  m.  2  sec. 

It  is  proper  to  remark,  that  Charlotte  Russe  ran  the  above  race  under 
great  disadvantages.  Her  defeat  has  been  ascribed  by  many  of  her  friends 
to  the  bad  condition  she  was  in,  having  taken  cold  in  travelling  from  Co- 
lumbia to  Augusta,  besides  having  suffered  considerably  from  a  recent 
accident  on  the  railroad.  No  one  that  had  ever  marked  her  agile  and 
fawn-like  action  when  in  health  and  spirits,  so  buoyant  and  graceful  in- 
deed, that — 

"  A  foot  more  light,  a  step  more  true, 
Ne'er  from  the  heath-flower  dashed  the  dew ; 
E'en  the  slight  hare-bell  raised  its  head, 
Elastic  from  her  airy  tread." 

No  one,  we  say,  who  had  ever  marked  this,  her  peculiar  manner  of  mo- 
ving, but  must  have  seen  at  once  she  was  evidently  "  off  her  foot"  in  the 
above  contest. 

These  remarks,  however,  are  not  made  to  disparage,  in  the  slightest 
degree,  her  successful  competitor,  who  so  well  contrived  to  steal  a  march 
upon  the  knowing  ones.  "We  desire  not  to  pluck  one  laurel  from  the 
bright  garland  that  surrounds  his  brow.  We  deem  him  a  colt  of  the 
greatest  promise,  destined  most  certainly  to  run  a  brilliant  career,  and  to 
reap  a  glorious  harvest.  "  Honor  to  whom  honor  is  due  ;"  but  we  are 
equally  bound  at  the  same  time,  to  "  render  unto  Cajsar,  the  things  that 
are  Caesars,"  and  to  make  in  behalf  of  an  unfortunate  rival,  such  expla- 
nations as  she  may  be  entitled  to. 

Of  John  Guedron,  (brought  to  the  post  by  the  far-famed  trainer  of  the 
celebrated  Bascombe,)  it  should,  also,  in  fairness,  be  stated,  that  he  was 
not  by  any  means  "  up  to  the  mark,"  not  having  been  sufficiently  long 
on  the  ground  to  be  put  in  order  for  this  race.  The  time  he  made  after- 
wards in  the  Saturday's  race,  which  he  won,  we  think  corroborates  this 
opinion. 

Second  Race — Same  day. — Jockey  Club  Purse,  $60. — 1  mile  heats, 
weight  for  age. 

Mr.  Newby's  gr.  g.  Hardheart,  aged,  by  Mercury,  dam  by  Chuck-a- 

luck,  123  lbs. 11 

Mr.  Richardson's  ch.  f.  Ellen,  4  yrs.  old,  by  Bertrand  Jr.,  dam  by 

Virginius,  99  lbs., 2        2 

Time — 2  m.  1  sec;  2  m.  3  sec. 


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TJiursday,  Feb.  22. — Jockey  Club  Purse,  $600. — 3  mi'e  heats,  weight 
for  ago. 

Col.  McCargo's  b.  c.  Billy  Townes,  3  yrs.  old,  by  imp.  Flyde,  dam  by 

Virginian,  90  lbs., 11 

Lovell  &  Hammond'.s  ch.  c.  Qerow,  3  yrs.  old,  by  Henry,  dam  by 

Eclipse,  90  lbs.,    ....  ....        5        2 

Dr.  Guignard's  ch.  g.  Clodhopper,  5  yrs.  old,  109  lbs  ,       ...        2        3 
Col.  Richardson's  ch.  m.  Betsey  Astor,  5  yrs.  old,  by  Crusader,  dam 

by  Little  Billy,  109  lbs., 3        dis. 

Col.  Fludd's  ch.  c.  Rienzi,  4  yrs.  old,  by  Bertrand  Jr.,  dam  Carolina, 

by  Buzzard,  102  lbs., 4         dis. 

Time — 6  m.  6  sec;  6  m.  2  sec. 

Second  Race — Same  day. — Jockey  Club  Purse,  |70. — 2  mile  heats, 
weight  for  age. 

Col.  Spann's  ch.  f.  Dorabella,  4  yrs.  old,  by  Bertrand  Jr.,  out  of  the 

dam  of  Venus,  99  lbs., 11 

Col.  Richardson's  ch.  f.  Ellen,  4  yrs.  old,  by  Bertrand  Jr.,  dam  by 

Virginius,  99  lbs., 2        2 

Time — 4  in.  10  sec;  4  ra.  10  sec. 

Friday,  Feb.  28. — Jockey  Club  Purse,  1400. — 2  mile  heats,  weight 
for  age  ;  no  horse  to  start  over  4  yrs. 

Mr.  Sinkler's  ch.  f.  Jeannette  Berkley,  by  Bertrand  Jr.,  out  of  Caro- 
lina, by  Buzzard,  87  lbs.,      .         .  ....         1         1 

Col.  McCargo's  ch.  c.  Genito,  4  yrs.  old,  by  Eclipse,  dam  by  Paoken- 

ham,  90  lbs., 5        2 

Col.  Fludd's  b.  f.  Lily,  imp.,  3  yrs.  old,  by  The  Colonel,  out  of  Fleur 

de  Li.=,  87  lbs., 3         3 

Mr.  Richardson's  b.  c.  Delville,  3  yrs.  old,  by  Bertrand  Jr.,  dam 

Coquette,  90  lbs  ,...-....         4        4 

Col.  Spann's  b.  c.  Convention,  4  yrs.  old,  by  Bertrand,  out  of  Poor 

Girl,  102  lbs., 2        5 

Time — 3  m.  56^;  3  m.  56  sec. 

Immediately  after  the  above  race  was  decided,  it  was  agreed  between 
the  owners  of  Convention  and  Delville,  to  run  them  another  heat  for  an 
inside  stake  of  $100,  added  to  a  purse  of  $50,  given  by  the  Club.  They 
ran  a  dead  heat  in  3  m.,  57  sec.  Upon  starting  the  second  time,  a  beau- 
tiful race  ensued,  which  terminated  only  by  a  length  in  favor  of  Delville, 
in  4  m.  So  well  matched  were  these  horses,  that  the  success  of  Delville, 
we  think,  may,  in  a  great  measure,  be  attributed  to  the  fine  riding  of 
Col.  Hampton's  boy,  who  jockeyed  liim  on  the  occasion. 

Saturday,  Feb.  24.  —  Purse,  $650.83. —  3  mile  heats.  —  Handicap 
Race. 

Lovell  &  Hammond's  ch.  c.  John  Guedron,  3  yrs.  old,  by  Bertrand, 

out  of  Nancy  Hare,  by  Percussion,  85  lbs.,         ...         1         1 

Col.  Spann's  ch.  f.  Dorabella,  4  yrs.  old,  by  Bertrand  Jr.,   out  of 

the  dam  of  Venus,  a  feather, 3       2 


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Dr.  Guignard's  ch.  g.  Clodhopper,  5  yrs.  old,  104  lbs.,      ...        4        3 
Mr.  Richardson's  ch.  m.  Betsey  Astor,  5  yrs.  old,  by  Crusader,  dam 

by  Little  Billy,  90  lbs., -24 

Time — 5  m.  59  sec;  5  m.  57  sec. 

Second  Race — Same  day. — Jockey  Club  Purse,  $65. — Best  three  in 

five. 

Mr.  Newby's  gr.  g.  Hardheart,  aged,  by  Mercury,  dam  by  Chuck- 

a-luck,  1231b3., Ill 

Col,  Spann's  b.  c.  Falcon,    3  yrs.   old,  by  Bertrand,   dam  by  Sir 

Charles,  90  lbs., 2     2    dis. 

Time — 2  m.;  2  m.  1  sec;  2  m.  3  sec. 

There  was  some  blood  stock  imported  to  Charleston,  per  the  ship  Chi- 
na, from  Liverpool,  in  the  spring  of  this  year.  On  the  18th  of  May 
they  were  sold  at  public  auction,  bringing  very  fair  prices. 

1.  Prima,  b.  m.,  by  Priam,  out  of  Dahlia,  in  foal  to  Discount,     ISOO 

2.  B.  m.,  5  years  old,  by  Filho  da  Puta,  out  of  Zepherina,  also 

in  foal  to  Discount, 620 

3.  Frances,  br.  m.,  by  Emilius,  in  foal  to  Birdcatcher,     -^        -       610 

4.  B.  m.,  5  yrs.  old,  by  Memnon,  out  of  Eleanor,  -         -         -       575 

5.  Lady  Sheffield,  ch.  m.,  by  Recovery,  out  of  Primrose,         .       525 

6.  B.  m.,  by  Emancipation,  out  of  Sligo,  in  foal  to  Discount,  -       365 
\BZQ.— Saturday,  Feb.  16.— Citizen's  Purse,  $1,000.— Free  for  all 

ages.— 3  yrs.  carrying  90  lbs.,  4  yrs.  102,  5  yrs.  112,  6  yrs.  120,  7  and 
upwards  126  lbs.;  mares,  fillies  and  geldings  allowed  3  lbs. — 3  mile  heats 

Lovell  &  Hammond's  imp'd  b.  f.  Miss  Accident,  3  yrs.,  by  Tramp; 

Florentine,  by  Whisker, 3     11 

W.  Sinkler's  ch.  f-  Jeannette  Berkley,  4  yrs.,  by  Bertrand  Jr.,  out 

of  Carolina,  by  Buzzard, 5     4     2 

Wm.  McCargo's  ch.  f.  Missouri,  4  yrs.,  by  Eclipse,  dam  by  Director,     4      3      3 

W.  Hampton's  ch.  m.  Charlotte  Russe,*  5  yrs.,  own  sister  to  Trifle,     1     2     dr. 

J.  R.  Spann's  b.  f.  Compromise,  3  yrs.,  by  Nullifier,  out  of  Anti  Tar- 
iff,         2     dr. 

Time — 1st  heat,  6  m.  6  sec;  2d  heat,  5  m.  54  sec;  3d  heat,  6  m.  4 
sec. 

The  first  heat  was  won  by  Charlotte  Russe,  with  much  ease.  On  start- 
ino-  for  the  second  heat,  like  one  conscious  of  her  power  to  take  the  lead 
at  any  moment,  she  was  content  to  trail  until  the  commencement  of  the 
3d  mile.  At  this  point,  she  challenged  the  leading  horse,  and  after  a 
pretty  brush  down  the  back  stretch  with  Miss  Accident,  led  the  field.  On 
entering  the  last  quarter,  she  seemed  to  be  winning  hard  in  hand,  when, 
as  if  to  verify  the  old  adage,  "many  a  slip  between  the  cup  and  the 

"Charlotte  Russe  broke  down  in  second  heat. 


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Up" — to  impart,  as  it  were,  a  moral  lesson  even  from  tl'.e  sports  of  tlio 
Turf,  of  the  uncertainty  of  all  human  affairs — she  was  seen  to  falter. 

An  old  proverb  declares  it  to  be  "  an  ill  wind  that  does  not  blow 
somebody  good."  Rochefoucalt  goes  further,  and  says,  "  there  is  some- 
thing in  the  misfortunes  even  of  our  best  friends,  that  is  not  altogether 
displeasing  to  us."  Perhaps,  the  force  of  the  philosopher's  saying,  was 
never  more  palpably  demonstrated  than  on  the  present  occasion.  Miss 
Accident  was,  no  doubt,  very  sorry  for  the  accident  of  her  fair  rival,  but 
she  lost  no  time,  like  too  many  in  the  world,  to  profit,  if  possible,  by  it« 
Under  whip  and  spur,  she  made  a  dash  for  the  heat ;  she  had  just  time 
(so  nearly  had  Charlotte  Paisse  terminated  the  contest)  to  lock  lier  stag- 
gering competitor,  and  put  her  nose  first  past  the  winning  chair. 

Wo  regret  to  state  that,  on  holding  up,  it  was  discovered  that  Char- 
lotte Russe  had  sprung  a  tendon  in  the  left  fore  leg,  and  is  in  conse- 
quence so  much  injured,  as  to  be  disabled  from  ever  again  appearing  on 
the  Course. 

The  3d  heat  was  one  of  much  interest  and  excitement.  It  was  well 
contested  from  the  jump.  The  blood  of  Eclipse  and  Bertrand  endured 
with  its  characteristic  faithfulness  even  unto  the  end  ;  but  it  availed 
not  to  out-Tramj?  the  imported  stock.  Miss  Accident,  the  winner,  is  a 
filly  by  Tramp.  We  predict  for  her,  harring  all  accidents,  a  successful 
career. 

Monday,  Feb.  18. — Sweepstakes  for  3  yr.  olds — Colts  90  lbs.,  fillies 
87  lbs. — Eight  subscribers,  at  $300  each,  |100  forfeit. — 2  mile  heats. 

Col.  Fitzsimon's  (Dr.  A.  T.  B.  Merritt's)  imp.  ch.  f.  The  Queen,  own 

sister  to  Monarch, rec'd  ft. 

From  the  following  : 

Col.  Hampton's  imp.  b.  f.  Ella,  by  Emilius,  out  of  Ada,  sister  to  Augusta,  by  TVo- 
ful. 

Col.  Preston's  imp.  ch.  c.  by  Defence,  out  of  Tears,  by  Woful. 

Col.  Singleton's  b.  c  Chieftain,  by  Godolphin,  out  of  Young  Lottery,  by  Sir  Archj 

Also, —  imp.  br.  f.,  by  Sultan,  out  of  Rachel. 

Major  McRa's  br.  f  ,  by  Bertrand  Junior,  out  of  Grizzle's  dam. 

Col.  Adam's  imp.  ch.  f ,  by  The  Colonel,  out  of  Peri,  the  dam  of  Sir  Hercules. 

Mr.  Pierce's  ch.  f  ,  by  Mons.  Tonson,  out  of  Betsey  Hare's  dam. 

Tuesday,  Feb.  19. — Match,  $200  a  side. — Jockey  Club,  weights  for  age. 
— 2  mile  beats. 

Col.  Augustus  Fludd's  b.  f.  Zoraida,  by  Virglnius,  (of  Transport,) 

dam  by  Comet,  3  yrs  , 11 

Col.  W.  Sinkler's  imp.  b.  f.  Miss  Clinker,  by  Humphrey  Clinker ; 

imp.  Mania,  by  Figaro.  3  yrs., "22 

Time — 4  m.  1  sec.;  4  m.  15  sec. 


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Wednesday,  Feb.  20. — Jockey  Club  Purse,  $1,000,  conditions  as    on 

Saturday. — 4  mile  heats. 

Col.  Wade  Hampton's  imp.  b.  c.  Monarch,  by  Priam,  out  of  Dol- 

phine,  by  Wliisker,  4  yrs  ,  ......         1         1 

W.  H.  B.  Richardson's  eh.  c.  Trident,  by  Bertrand  Jr.;  Little  Ve- 
nus, by  Sir  William,  of  Transport,  3  yrs.,  ....         3        2 

Lovell  &  Hammond's  imp.  b.  f.  Florida  Hepburn,  by  Tramp;  Miss 

Armstrong,  by  Whisker,  3  yrs 2        dr. 

Time — 8  ra.  7  sec;    8  ra.  55  sec. 

Thursday,  Feb.  21. — Jockey  Club  Purse,  $600,  conditions  as  before. 
— 3  mile  heats. 

Lovell  &  Hammond's  br.  f.  Polly  Green,  by  Sir  Charles ;  Polly 

Peacham,  by  John  Richards,  4  yrs., 11 

Col.  Wm.  Sinkler's  ch.  c.  Santa  Anna,  by  Bertrand  Jr.,  dam  by 

Kosciusko,  4  yrs.,        . .32 

Col.  W.  Hampton's  imp.  b.  f.  Emily,  by  Emilius,  out  of  Elizabeth, 

by  Rainbow,  4  yrs 2        dr. 

Time — 5  m.  59  sec;  5  m.  52  sec. 

Same  day — Second  Race. — Purse, ,  conditions  as  before. — 1  mil^ 

heats. 

W.  H.  B.  Richardson's  ch.  m.  Aunt  Pontypool,  by  Bertrand  Jr.; 

Goldtinder,  by  Virginius,  5  yrs  ,  .         .         .         .         .311 

Maj.  J.  P.  McRa's  br.  f.,  by  Bertrand  Junior,  dam  by  Financier, 

3  yrs., 12     2 

Mr.  Shier's  b.  g.  John,  pedigree  unknown, 5      3      3 

Col.  W.  Sinkler's  imp.  b.  f.  Miss  Clinker,  pedigree  above,  3  yrs.,     .  2    dr. 

Mr.  Riley's  m.  Lalla  Rookh,  pedigree  unknown,     •         .         .         .  4     dr. 

Time — 1  m.  55  sec;  1  m.  58  sec;  1  m.  55  sec. 

Friday,  Feb.  22. — Jockey  Club  Purse,  |400. — 2  mile  heats. 

Wm.  McCargo's  ch.  f.  Missouri,  by  Eclipse,  dam  by  Director,  4  yrs.,     5      11 
Lovell  &  Hammond's  imp.  b.  f.  Florida  Hepburn,  pedigree  above,  3 

yrs., 352 

Col.  A.  Fludd's  b.  f.  Zoraida,  pedigree  above,  3  yrs.,         .         .         .433 
Col.    Spann's  (Col.  J.  E.  Calhoun's)  b.  f.  Compromise,  pedigree 

above,  3  yrs  , 1      2     dr. 

Maj.  P   McRa's  ch.  f.  Ellen  Percy,  by  Godolphin,  dam  by  Bedford, 

4  yrs. ,        .     2    4     dr. 

Time — 3  m.  59  sec;  3  m.  57^  sec;  3  m.  57^  sec. 
Saturday,  Feb.  23.— Handicap  Pur.se,  $600,  (being  the   receipts  at 
the  Gates.) — 3  mile  heats. 

Wm.  McCargo's  (Dr.  Merritt's)  imp.  ch.  f.  The  Queen,  pedigree 

above,  3  yrs  ,  87  lbs  , 11 

Col.  Sinkler's  ch.  f  Jeannette  Berkley  ,pedigreo  above,4  yrs.,  89  lbs.,        2        2 
Col.  Fludd's  b.  f.  Zoraida,  pedigree  above,  3  yrs.,  a  feather,     ..33 

Time — 5  m.  47  sec;  5  m.  54  sec 

Same  c/ay.— The  "  Tattersall  Whip,"  presented  by  Richard  Tattersall, 


15  * 

Esq.,  of  London,  to  the  South  Carolina  Jockey  Club,  united  to  a  sub- 
scription of  $200  each,  (upon  the  principle  which  governs  the  race  for 
The  Whip  in  England.)-4  miles. 

Col,  "Wado  Hampton's  imp.  b.  c.  Monarch,  pedigree  above,  4  yrs., 

Ill  lbs w.  over. 

After  galloping  3  miles,  Monarch  ran  the  4th  in  1  ra.  48  sec,  carry- 
ing 9  lbs.  extra.     $20,000  has  since  been  offered  for  him,  and  refused. 

Same  day — Second  Mace. — Purse, ,  conditions  as  for  Citizen's 

Purse. — 1  mile  heats,  best  3  in  5. 

Col.  Spann'K  b.  f.  Compromise,  pedigree  above,  3  yrs.,     .        .        .111 
W.  H.  B.  Richardson's  cb.  m.  Avint  Pontjpool,  pedigree  above,  5  yrs,     2     2    dr. 

Time — 1  m.  59  sec;  2  m. 

Col.  Hampton  sold  "  The  Queen,"  at  2  years  old,  to  Dr.  A.  T.  B.  Mer- 
ritt,  of  Hicksford,  Virginia,  for  $6,000.  Dr.  Merritt  soon  after  sold  her 
to  a  gentleman  of  Columbia,  for  $8,000  ;  but  subsequently  re-purchased 
her,  and  refused  that  amount  in  cash.  It  is  now  understood,  that  Messrs. 
J.  C.  Rogers  and  Dr.  Geo.  Goodwyn  liave  an  interest  in  her.  She  is 
own  sister  to  Monarch,  3  yrs.  by  Priam,  out  of  Delphi ne,  by  Whisker. 

Delphine  has  been  imported  by  Col.  Hampton ;  she  has  recently 
dropped  a  colt,  which  is  nominated  in  the  Peyton  Stake,  to  be  run  at 
Nashville,  Tennessee,  in  October,  1843. 

There  have  been  some  recent  importations  of  thorough  bred  horses 
to  Charleston,  from  England — drafts  from  several  of  them  have  been  sold 
at  auction. 

•  Mr.  Porcher  sold  on  the  Washington  Course  at  Charleston,  South 
Carolina,  on  the  22d  February,  the  following  lots,  imported  in  the  ship 
"China:" 

Portland,  ch.  h.,  by  Recovery,  out  of  Caifacaratadaddera,  by  Walton, 
5  yrs.,  to  Col.  P.  Fitzsimons,  of  Georgia,  for  $850.  Bay  filly,  by  Mu- 
latto, out  of  Olinda,  by  The  Colonel,  1  yr.,  to  P.  McRa,  Esq.,  of  South 
Carohna,  for  $680.  Brown  filly,  by  St.  Nicholas,  out  of  Mysinda,  by 
Lottery.  3  yrs.  to  Col.  Fitzsimons,  for  $800.  Rosolia,  ch.  g.,  by  Vanish, 
out  of  Ro.seleaf,  by  Whisker,  3  yrs.,  to  Col.  W.  Hampton,  for  $280. 
Black  Colt,  by  Cain  or  Actseon,  out  of  Panthea,  by  Comus  or  Blacklock, 
yearling,  to  G.  W.  Polk,  Esq.,  of  Tennessee,  for  $780.  Brown  mare, 
by  Mambrino,  out  of  Clinkerina,  by  Clinker,  5  yrs.,  to  W.  J.  Taylor, 
Esq.,  for  $700.  Grey  mare,  by  Velocipede,  dam  by  Minos,  in  foal  to 
The  Saddler,  to  Col.  Fitzsimons,  for  $725.  Brown  filly,  by  Bay  Wal- 
ton, dam  by  Whisker,  2  yrs.,  to  Col.  T.  Pinckney,  of  South  Carolina,  for 
$320. 


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The  following  lots,  imported  into  Charleston,  South  Carolina,  by  Mr. 
Fryer,  of  Columbia,  have  been  disposed  of  at  private  sale  : 

Bay  colt,  by  Sorcerer,  out  of  Minnow,  by  Filho  da  Puta,  to  Capt  Don- 
ald Rowe,  of  Orangeburg.  Chesnut  filly,  by  Priam,  dam  by  Velocipede, 
to  Gov.  Butler,  of  Columbia.  Bay  filly,  by  Emilius,  out  of  Minerva,  by 
Merlin,  to  Gen.  Jas.  H.  Adams,  of  the  same  city.  B.  m.  Sarah,  by  Sar- 
pedon,  out  of  Frolicsome,  by  Frolic,  with  a  colt,  by  l^r.  Syntax,  to  Mr. 
Sutton,  of  Charleston.  Capt.  Rowh  claims  the  name  of  Tattersall  for 
the  bay  colt  he  purchased. 

It  was  deemed  expedient  and  wise,  for  the  greater  promotion  of  sport, 
that  the  Rule,  hitherto  disqualifying  horses  for  starting  for  the  race  on 
Friday,  two  mile  heats,  that  loere  not  under  five  years  of  age,  should  bo 
aholished — making  that  race  in  future,  as  on  all  the  other  days  in  the 
wec'k,/7'ee  to  all  age-f,  carrying  weight  for  age. 

1 840 — Monday,  Fib.  1 7. — Sweepstakes  for  colts  and  fillies,  3  yrs.  old. — 
2  mile  heats.— 1300  entrance,  $100  forfeit.     Colts  00  lbs.,  fillies  87  lbs. 

Col   Singleton's  br.  f.  Helen,  irnp'd,  by  Priam,  out  of  Malibran,     .211 
Wr.  Edmonson's  eh.  f.  Mary  Elizabeth,  by  Andrew,  dam  by  Old 

Gallatin,  12     2 

J.  B.  Richardson's  ch  f.  Amy,  by  Non  Plus,  dam  by  Comet,    .         .333 

Time— 1st  heat,  4  m.  9  sec;  2d  heat,  3  m.  46  sec;  3d  heat,  3  m.  57 
sec. 

The  following  paid  forfeit : 

Col.  Hampton's  b.  c.  imported  Sovereign,  by  Emilius,  out  of  Fleur  de 
Lis. 

Col.  Hampton's  ch.  f.  imported  Actress,  by  the  Colonel,  out  of  Miss 
Chfton. 

Mr.  McCra's  imported  ch.  f.,  by  Langar. 

P.  Fitzsimmon's  br.  f.,  by  St.  Nicholas. 

John  Manning's  ch.  f,  by  Langar,  out  of  the  Balkan. 

M.  Seabrook's  ch.  f.,  by  Medoc,  out  of  Sally  Taylor. 

Dr.  Hayward's  br.  f.,  by  Non  Plus,  dam  by  Crusader. 

"Wade  Hampton,  Jr.'s,  br.  f.  Kate  Seyton,  by  Argyle,  out  of  Pocahon- 
as. 

P.  M.  Butler's  b.  f.,  (imported,)  by  Actjeon,  out  of  Ada. 

Powel  McCra's  ch.  c.  Equinox,  by  Gohanna,  out  of  old  Janette. 

John  Woodfolk's  ch.  c.  Cussetah  Chief,  by  Andrew,  out  of  Virago,  by 
Wildair. 

Tuesday,  Fib.  18.— Citizen's  Purse,  $1,000.-3  mile  heats,  weight  for 
age,  free  to  all. 

Col.  Colclough  &  Hammond's  gr  ra  Omega,  5  yrs.,  by  Timoleon,  out 

of  Daisy  Cropper,  by  Oscar, 11 


3 


3  4 

4  5 


77 

Mr.  Walton's  b  c.  Gano,  4  yrs.,  by  Eclipse,  out  of  Betsey  Richards,        2        2 

Mr.  Sinkler's  ch.  m.  .leannetto   Berkley,  5  yrs ,  by  Bertrand,  Jr. 
dam  Carolina,  by  Buzzard,  .         .         .         ■         . 

Col.  Spann  &  E.  M    Seabrook's  ch.  f.   Meridian,  4  yrs.,  by  Godol- 
phin,  out  of  Midway,.         .         .  ... 

Col.Fludd's  b.  in.  Lilly,  5  yrs  ,  by  The  Colonel,  out  of  Fleur  do  Li? 

J.  D.  Allan's  b.  f  Zoraida,  4  yrs  ,  by  Young  Virginius,  dam  by  Ber- 
trand,   •         •  .        5        dr. 

Time — 1st  heat,  5  m.  56  sec;  2(1  heat,  5  ni.52  sec. 
Wednesday,  Feb.  19. — Jockey  Club  Purse.  Sl,O0O. — 4  mile  heats,  con- 
ditions as  before. 

Mr.  Hammond's  ch.  h.  Gerow,  5  yrs  ,  by  Henry,  dam  by  Eclipse,  .  1  1 
Mr.  Fludd  s  ch.  m.  Hermion,  3  yrs  ,  by  iinp'd  Nou  Plus,  out  of  Leo- 

cadie,  ...........         3        2 

Mr.  Simons'  br.  c.  Giovanni.  3  yrs.,  by  Mucklejohn,  dam  by  Sir 

Richard, 2        dia. 

Time — 1st  heat,  8  m.  9  sec;  2d  heat,  8  m.  22  sec. 
Same  day — Second  Race. — Jockey  Club  Purse. — 2  mile  heats,  con- 
ditions as  before. 

Mr.  Sinkler's  b.  f.  Gipsey,  4  yrs  ,'by  Nullifier,  dam  by  Anti-Tariff,  1  1 
Mr.  M.  Deveaux's  ch.  c  ,  4  yrs.,  by  Bertrand  Jr.,  out  of  Lapusell,  .        2        2 

Time — 1st  heat,  3  in.  .59  sec;  2d  heat,  3  m.  58  sec. 
Thursday,  Feb.  20. — Jockey  Club  Purse,  -$600. — 3  mile  heats,  con- 
ditions as  before. 

Mr.  Hammond's  ch.  f.  Zenobia,  4  yrs.,  by  imp'd  Roman,  dam  by  Du- 

roc, 11 

Mr.  Sinkler's  ch.  f.  Cava,  3  yrs  ,  by  Bertrand,  out  of  Betsey  Eccles,  3  2 
CoL  McRa's  ch.  c.  Dayton,  3  yrs  ,  by  Tormentor,  dam  Tuckabo,  .  2  3 
Col.  Singleton's  ch.  h.  Luzborough,  5  yrs-,  by  Luzborough,  out  of 

Phenomena,        .         .         • broke  down. 

Time — 1st  heat,  6  m.  20  sec;  2d  heat,  6  m.  1  sec  Zenobia  broke 
down  just  after  winning  the  race. 

Same  day — Second  Race. — Jockey  Club  Purse. — 1  mile  heats,  con- 
ditions as  before.     Distance  Post  50  yards. 

Col.  Spann's  imp'd  b.  f.  Sally  Butler,  3  yrs  , 11 

Mr.  Simons'  b.  h.  Neuman  Noggs,  5  yrs.,  by  Timoleon,  dam  by  Na- 
poleon,           2        2 

Mr.  Ratcliffe's  b.  g.  Silkworm,  5  yrs., dis. 

Time — 1st  heat,  1  ni.  57  sec;  2d  heat,  2  m. 

Friday,  Feb.  21. — Jockey  Club  Purse,  $400. — 2  mile  heats,  conditions 
as  before. 

Mr.  TValton's  b  c.  Gano,  4  yrs.,  by  Eclipse,  out  of  Betsey  Richards,  1  1 

Mr.  McKa's  ch.  c  Equinox,  pedigree  above, 2  2 

Mr.  Fludd's  ch.  f  Hermion,  pedigree  above,   .         ....  3  dr. 

Mr.  Radoliffe's  b.  f.  Adrianaa,  3  yrs  ,  by  Mulatto,  out  of  Octavia,  .  4  dr. 


♦ 


V8 


...  Time — 1st  heat,  3  m.  53  sec;  2d  heat,  4  m.  3  sec. 

Same  day — Second  Race. — Jockey  Club  Purse. — 2  mile  heats,  con- 
ditions as  before. 

Mr,  Sinkler's  b.  f.  Gipsey,  pedigree  above, 11 

Mr.  Spann's  imp.  b.  f.  Sally  Butler,  pedigree  above,        ...        2        dr. 

Time — 4  ra.  1  sec. 

Saturday,  Feb.  22. — Handicap  Race. — S  mile  heats. 

Mr.  Sinkler's  cb.  m.  Jeannette  Berkley,  5  yrs.,  pedigree  above,  han- 
dicapped, 100  lbs.,       ........  1  1 

Mr.  Allan's  b.  m.  Zoraida,  4  yrs.,  pedigree  above,  85  lbs.,  ..32 
Mr.  Edmondson's  ch.  f.  Mary  Elizabeth,  3  yrs.,  pedigree  above,  84 

lbs., 2  3 

Col.  Singleton's  br.  f.  imp.  Helen,  3  yrs.,  pedigree  above,  87  lbs.,     .  5  4 

Mr.  Seabrook'scb.  m.  Meridian,  4  yrs  ,  pedigree  above,  85  lbs.,       .  4  dis. 

Time — 1st  heat,  5  m.  54.;  2d  heat,  5  m.  56^  sec.  Jeannette  carried 
102^  lbs. 

Same  day — Second  Race. — Jockey  Club  Purse. — Best  3  in  5,  weight 
for  age. 

Mr.  Legare's  cb.  f.  Cava,  3  yrs.,  pedigree  above,  87  lbs.,  .         .111 

Col.  McRa's  ch.  c.  Dayton,  3  yrs.,  pedigree  above,  90  lbs.,        .         .222 

Time — 1st  heat,  1  m.  57  sec;  2d  heat,  1  m.  57-^  sec;  3d  heat,  1  m. 
59  sec 

We  regret  to  state  that  Monarch,  the  property  of  Col.  Hampton,  will 
not  be  trained  again.  We  make  this  explanation,  in  answer  to  many 
inquiries  respecting  this  favorite  horse.  In  the  course  of  last  Fall,  in  a 
gallop  upon  the  private  course  of  Col.  Hampton,  he  unfortunately  struck 
some  hard  substance,  and  let  down  in  his  right  fore  leg. 

1841. —  Wednesday,  Feb.  17. — Jockey  Club  Purse,  $1,000. — 4  mile 
heats,  weight  for  age. 

Col.  Crowell's  gr.  m.  Omega,  6  yrs.,  by  Timoleon,  dam  by  Oscar,  .  1  1 
W.  Hampton's  ch.  b.  Santa  Anna,  5  yrs.,  by  Bertrand  Jr.,  out  of 

Daisy,  by  Kosciusko,  2        2 

W.  Sinkler's  ch.  f.  Lady  Cava,  4  yrs.,  by  Bertrand,  out  of  Betsey 

Eccles, 3        3 

Lady  Cava  carried  3  lbs.  overweight. 
Time — 1st  heat,  8  m.  5  sec;  2d  heat,  8  m.  2  sec 
Second  Race — Same  day. — Jockey  Club  Purse,  8100. — 1  mile  heats, 
conditions  as  before. 

Capt.  Rowe's  b.  Salkahatchie,  4  yrs.,  by  Vertumnus,  out  of  Sally 

Richardson, 11 

W.  Sinkler's  ch.  c.  Dayton,  4  yrs.,  by  Tormentor,  dam  by  Tuckahoe,         2        2 

Time — 1st  heat,  2  m.  56  sec;  2d  heat,  2  m. 

Thursday,  Feb.  18. — Jockey  Club  Purse,  $750. — 3  mile  heats,  condi- 
tions as  before. 


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Col.  Hampton's  eh.  f.  Fanny,  4  yrs  ,  by  Eclipse,  out  of  Maria  "West, 

by  Marion, 2      11 

Col.  CroireU's  b.  f.  Nancy  Clarke,  3  yrs.,  by  Bertrand,  out  of  Mo- 
rocco Slipper,  by  Timoleon, 12     2 

Time — 1st  heat,  5  rn.  50  sec;  2d  heat,  5  m.  5Y  sec;  3d  heat,  6  m. 
15  sec. 

Same  day — Second  Race. — Jockey  Club  Purse,  $150. — 2  mile  heats, 
conditions  as  before. 

Mr.  Sinkler's  ch.  f.  Rowtonella,  3  yrs.  old,  by  Rowton,  dam  Sally 

Hopkins, 11 

Mr.  Hammond's  ch.  h.  Highland  Henry,  5  yrs,,  by  Henry,  dam  by 

Eclipse, 2        2 

Time — Ist  heat,  3  m.  59  sec;  2d  heat,  3  m.  57  sec. 
Fridaij,  Feb.  19. — Jockey  Club  Purse,  $400 — 2  mile  heats,  condi- 
tions as  before. 

W.  Sinkler's  b.  f.  Kate  Converse,  3  yrs.,  by  imp'd  Non  Plus  ;   dam 

Daisy,  by  Kosciusko,  .......         1         1 

Col.  Crowell's  ch.  f.  Mary  Elizabeth,  4  yrs.  old,  by  Andrew,  dam 

by  Gallatin, 2        2 

Capt   Rowe's  b.  f.  Salkahatchie,  4  yrs.,  pedigree  above,  ..43 

Col.  Fludd's  b.  c.  Topknot,  4  yrs.,  by  Non  Plus,  dam  Nancy  Air,     .         3        4 

Time — 3  m.  56  sec;  2d  heat,  3  m.  54  sec 
Saturday,  Feb.  20. — Handicap  Race. — 3  mile  heats. 

Col.  Hampton's  ch.  f.  Fanny,  99  lbs., 2      11 

W.  Sinkler's  ch.  f.  Lady  Cava,  87  lbs., 3      2      2 

Col.  Crowell's gr.m.  Omega,  117  lbs.,       .         .  .         .         .13      3 

Time — 1st  heat,  5  m.  57  sec;  2d  heat,  5  m.  54  sec;  3d  heat,  5  m. 
58  sec. 

Same  day — Second  Race. — Jockey  Club  Purse. — Best  3  in  5,  weight 
for  age. 

Mr.  Sinkler's  ch.  f.  Rowtonella, 2      111 

Col.  Crowell's  ch.  f.  Lady  Elizabeth,    .        .         .        .         •         .12      2    2 
Col.  Fludd's  b.  c.  Topknot, 3     dr. 

Time — 1st  heat,  1  m.  55  sec;  2d  heat,  1  m.  54  sec;  3d  heat,  1  m. 
54  sec;  4th  heat,  1  m.  54  sec 

1842. —  Tuesday,  Feb.  22. — Sweepstakes. — 2  mile  heats,  for  colts  and 
fillies,  3  yrs.  old. — $200  entrance,  $1U0  forfeit.  Closed  on  the  1st  of 
April,  1841  ;  colts  90  lbs.,  fillies,  87  lbs. 

Col.  Singleton's  ch.  f ,  by  Rowton,  out  of  Phenomena,  walked  over. 
Received  forfeit  from — 

Col.  Hampton's  b.  f.  Ruby,  by  Rowton,  out  of  Bay  Maria. 
Wade  Hampton,  Jr.'s,  b.  f.,  by  Bertrand  Jr.,  out  of  Patsaliga. 
Capt.  Rowe's  ch.  f.,  by  Rowton,  out  of  Lady  Morgan. 


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Wednesday,  Feb.  23. — Jockey  Club  Purse,  $1,000. — 4  mile  heats, 
free  for  all  ages,  weight  for  age. 

Col.  Hampton's  ch.  m.  Fanny,  5  yrs.,  by  Eclipse,  out  of  Maria  West, 

by  Marion, -...11 

Mr.  Sinkler's  b.  f.  Kate  Converse,  4  yrs.,  by  Non  Plus,  out  of  Daisy, 

by  Kosciusko, 2        dr. 

Time — V  m.  57  sec.  Fanny  took  the  lead,  was  never  headed,  and 
won  easily. 

Thursday,  Feb.  24. — Jockey  Club  Purse,  $750. — 3  mile  heats,  condi- 
tions as  before. 

Col.  Hampton's  ch.  h.  Santa  Anna,  6  yrs.,  by  Bertrand  Jr.,  out  of 

Daisy,  by  Kosciusko, 2      11 

Col  Singleton's  br.  m.  imp'd  Helen,  5  yrs.,  by  Priam,  out  of  Mali- 
bran,    .        • 1      2     dr. 

.        Col.  McPherson's  b.  m.  Adrianna,  5  yrs.,  by  Mulatto,  out  of  Octa- 

via, •        .        •         .        •     3     dr. 

Time — 1st  heat,  5  m.  58  sec;  2d  heat,  5  m.  53  sec. 

Same  day — Second  Race. — Jockey  Club  Purse,  $150. — 2  mile  heats, 

conditions  as  before. 

AVade  Hampton's,  ch  f.  Fury,  (imp'd,)  4  yrs.,  by  Priam,  out  of  a 

sister  to  Ainderby, 11 

R.  C.  Richardson's  ch.  f.  Valeria,  3  yrs.,  by  Rowton,  dam  by  Roanoke,  2        2 

Mr.  Washington's  ch.  m.,  5  yrs.,  by  Collin, dr. 

Time — 1st  heat,  3  m.,  56  sec;  2d  heat,  3  m.  57  sec. 
Friday,  Feb.  25. — Jockey  Club  Purse,  $500. — 2  mile  heats,  condi- 
tions as  before. 

Col.  Ashe's  br.  h.  Willgo,  6  yrs.,  by  imported  Luzzborough,  dam  by 

Eclipse, 11 

Col.  Singleton's  b.  f  Kate  Converse,  4  yrs.,       .         ...        2        2 
Dr.  Guignard's  b.  c.  Edisto,  4  yrs.,  by  imp'd  Rowton,  out  of  Em- 
press, by  Henry,        ' 3        dr. 

Time — 1st  heat,  3  m.,  53  sec;   2d  heat,  3  m.,  57  sec. 
Same  day — Second  Race. — Jockey  Club  Purse,  $150. — 2  mile  heats, 
conditions  as  before. 

Mr.  Richardson's  b.  c.  Buck  Rabbit,  3  yrs  ,  by  imp'd  Non  Plus,  out 

of  the  dam  of  Fair  Ellen, 11 

Mr.  K.  Simon's  ch.  f.  Christina,  3  yrs.,  by  Rowton,  .        •        .        .        2        2 

Time — 1st  lieat,  3  m.  59  sec;  2d  heat,  4  ra.  8  sec. 

Saturday,  Feb.  26. — Handicap  Race. — 3  mile  heats. 
W.  Hampton's  ch.  m.  Fanny,  5  yrs,  109  lbs  ,  ....         1         1 

R.  Singleton's  br.  m.  Helen,  5  yrs  ,  100  lbs., 2        2 

Col.  McPhers;)n's  b   m.  Adrianna,  5  yrs  ,  95  lbs.,      ....        3        dis. 

Time — Ibt  heat,  6  m.  4  sec;  2d  heat,  5  m.,  57  sec.  Fanny,  in  the 
above  race,  achieved  an  easy  victory,  earning  for  herself  distinguished 


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reputation,  and  for  her  owner  the  comfortable  sum  of  |8,000,  in  Jockey 
Club  Purses  of  3  and  4  mile  heats,  on  open  account  to  the  present 
date. 

Same  day — Second  Race. — Jockey  Club  Purse. — Best  3  in  5,  weight 
for  age. 

'  Wade  Hampton's  cli.  f.  Fury,  4  yrs., Ill 

R.  C.  Richardson's  oh.  f.  Valeria,  3  yrs., 2     2     2 

Time — 1st  heat,  1  m.  55  sec;  2d  heat,  1  m.  54  sec;  3d  heat,  1  ra. 
56  see. 

It  was — 

Resolved,  at  this  meeting,  that  the  Club  should  give  a  Cup,  in  value 
not  exceeding  |200,  for  a  Race  to  be  run  on  the  Thursday  of  the  next 
regular  race  week  ;  the  horses  to  be  jockied  by  members  of  the  Club, 
and  to  be  owned  by  members. 

The  distance  run  to  be  a  single  two  miles,  other  conditions  to  be  fixed 
by  the  Stewards. 

ISi-^.—  Wednesdaij,  Feb.  22.— Jockey  Club  Purs^  |l,000.— 4  mile 
heats,  free  to  all  ages,  weight  for  age. 

Mr.  Lovell's  gr.  m,  Omega,  aged,  by  Timoleon,  dam  by  Oscar,     4     3      11 

Mr.  Sinkler's  ch.  h.  Santa  Anna,  aged,  by  Bertrand  Jr.,  dam  by 

Kosciusko, 5122 

Col.  Hampton's  ch.  m.RowtonclIa,  5  yrs,  by  Rowton,  out  of  Sal- 
ly Hopkins, 2     2     3    r.  out. 

Judge  Hunter's  b.  m.  Mary  Thomas,  5  yrs.,  by  imp'd  Consul, 
«-  dam  by  Roanoke,         .         .        .  .        •         .      1      br.  down. 

M.  R.  Singleton's  imp'd  b.  f.,  4  yrs.,  by  Augustus,  dam  by  Or- 

ville,  out  of  Sprightly,  .         .         .         .         .         .      3     dr. 

Time — 1st- heat.  1  m.  55  sec;  2d  heat,  8  m.  9  sec;  3d  hjcat,  8  m. 
14  sec;   4th  beat,  8  m.  10  sec 

Same  day — Second  Race. — Jockey  Club  Purse. — 1  mile  heats,  condi- 
tions as  before. 

V.  Mr.  Lovell's  b.  h.  Reveille,  5  yrs  ,  by  Virginian,   out  of  South- 

"  erner  s  dam 11 

W.  H.  Sinkler's  ch.  c.  Billy  Dykes,  3  yrs  ,  by  imp'd  Emancipation, 

dam  Leocadia,    .........        2        2 

Time — 1st  heat,  1  m.  55  sec;  2d  lieat,  1  ni.  58  sec. 
Tkursda>/,  Feb.  23.— Jockey  Club  Purse,  $750.-3  mile  heats,  condi- 
tions as  before. 

Mr.  Lovell's  cb.  m.  Martha  Rowton,  5  yrs.,  by  Rowton,  out  of  Phe- 
nomena,    ....         ......121 

Mr.  Sinkler's  ch.  m.  Jcannctte  Berkley,  aged,  by  Bertrand  Jr  ,  dam 

by  Buzzard, .312 

Mr.  Richardson's  ch.  f  Zoe,  4  yrs.,  by  Rowton,  out  of  Leocadia,       .2      3     dr. 
Mr.  M.  R.  Singleton's  imp'd  b.  f ,  4  yrs.,  by  Glaucus,  out  of  Christa- 

bel,  by  Woeful, .        .    ^ig. 

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Time — 1st  heat,  5  m.  54  sec;  2(1  heat,  5  m.  59  sec;  3d  heat,  6  ni.  18 
sec. 

Friday,  Fib.  24. — Jockey  Chib  Purse,  $500. — 2  mile  heats,  condi- 
tions as  before. 

Mr.  Sinkler's  ch.  c  Hero,  3  yrs.,  by  Bertrand  Jr.,  out  of  imp'd  Ma- 
nia, by  Figaro, 11 

Col.  Hainpton'.s  cb.  m.  Mary  Elizuboth,  6  yrs  ,  by  Andrew,  dam  by 

Gallatin, 3        2 

M.  R.  Singleton's  b  f  Kate  Converse,  5  yrs  ,  by  imp'd  Non  Pius, 

dam  by  Kosciusko, 2        dis. 

Time — 1st  heat,  3  m.  52  sec;  2d  heat,  3  m.  49  sec 
Same  day— Second  Bace.—.l ockey  Club  Purse,  $150.— 2  mile  heats, 
conditions  as  before. 

Judge  Hunter's  ch.  m.  Glenara,"4  yrs  ,  by  imp'd  Glencoe,      .        .        1        1 
Mr.  Lovell's  ch.  f.  Ailsey,  4  yrs  ,  by  Young  Virginian,  dam  by  Ear- 
wood,  2        2 

Time — 1st  heat,  3  m.  58  sec;  2d  lieat,  4  m.  Y  sec 
Saturday,  Feb.  25. — Handicap  Race. — 3  mile  heats. 

Mr.  Sinkler's  ch.  c.  Hero,  3  yrs.,  90  lbs  , 1         1 

Mr.  Richardson's  ch  f.  Zoo,  4  yrs ,  94  lbs  , 2         2 

Tiine — 1st  heat,  5  m.  5V  sec;  2d  heat,  5  ni.  56  sec 

Same  day — Second  Race. — Jockey  Club  Purse,  |100. — Best  3  in  5, 

conditions  as  before,  weight  for  age. 

Mr.  Lovell's  b.  f.  Nancy  Rowland,  4  yrs.,  by  Rowton,  dam  by  Rob 

Roy, 1      1      1 

TV.  n.  Sinkler's  ch.  c  Billy  Dykes,  3  yrs 2     2     2 

jimQ — 1st  heat,  1  m.  55  sec;  2d  heat,  1  m.  57  sec;  3d  heat,  2  ra. 

Mr.  LovcU  had  a  large  share  of  the  good  things  this  week  ;  his  horses 
started  five  times,  and  won  four.  The  4  mile  day,  $1,000 ;  same  day, 
the  second- race,  mile  heats.  The  3  mile  day,  8750,  and  the  second 
races,  2  mile  heats ;  and  best  of  .''  in  5  on  Friday  and  Saturday. 

The  first  meeting  this  season  of  the  South  Carolina  Jockey  Club  was 
held  February  18th.  The  death  of  Col.  Thomas  Pinckney,  late  Presi- 
dent of  the  Club,  having  taken  place  since  the  last  assembling  of  the 
Club,  the  melancholy  event  was  announced  in  a  very  feeling  manner  ^y 
the  Chairman,  James  Rose,  Esq.     It  was  immediately — 

Eesolvcd,  That  a  Committee  bo  appointed  to  prepare  a  suitable  tribute 
of  respect  to  the  memory  of  Col.  Pinckney. 

The  Committee  consisted  of  Dr.  Irving,  Col.  Hampton  and  Mr.  Wil- 
liam Sinkler. 

The  Club  then  immediately  adjourned,  without  transacting  any  busi- 
ness. 

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Having  met  again  on  the  21st,  the  following  Preamble  and  Resolu- 
tions were  submitted,  and  ordered  to  be  entered  on  the  Minutes  : 

The  Committee,  to  whom  was  referred  the  preparation  of  some  ex- 
pression of  regret  in  behalf  of  this  Club,  at  the  loss  it  has  recently  sus- 
tained in  the  death  of  its  late  President,  Col.  Pinckney,  have  taken  the 
subject  under  consideration,  and  respectfully  report  as  follows  : 

During  the  past  summer,  the  melancholy  intelligence  reached  this 
country,  that  Col.  Pinckney  died  in  Havre,  July  6th,  two  days  after  his 
arrival  in  that  city,  whither  he  had  gone,  to  try  the  effect  of  change  of 
climate,  upon  a  frame  enfeebled  by  much  previous  suffering.  As  his 
symptoms  told  too  plainly  the  nature  of  his  disease,  little  or  no  expecta- 
tion remained  to  his  family  and  friends  of  a  final  recovery ;  yet  they 
fondly  clung  to  hope — that  last  sad  refuge  of  affection.  The  news  of 
his  deceaoe,  therefore,  though  not  unexpected, 

"  For  death,  a  necessary  end, 
Will  come,  when  it  will  come," 

did  not  fail  to  spread  over  our  community  a  poignancy  of  sorrow,  as  sin- 
cere as  it  was  general.  The  arrow  pierces  not  the  heart  less  deeply,  be- 
cause we  bare  our  bosoms  to  the  blow. 

By  the  death  of  Col.  Pinckney,  "The  South  Carolina  Jockey  Club" 
has  met  with  an  irreparable  loss.  His  experience  was  invaluable.  He 
had  been  for  many  years  its  oldest  living  member.  He  joined  the  Club 
immediately  on  his  return  from  his  European  travels,  in  1802.  We  find 
him,  by  the  Minutes,  filling  various  offices.  He  was,  at  one  time,  a  Mana-, 
ger  of  Ihe  Ball ;  at  another,  one  of  the  Stewards ;  and  for  a  long  suc- 
cession of  seasons,  regularly  acted  as  one  of  the  Handicaq^pers.  In  1816, 
in  the  place  of  R.  I.  Izard,  Esq.,  deceased,  he  was  elected  Vice-President, 
which  office  he  filled  until  the  death  of  Col.  McPherson,  in  1834,  when 
he  was  unanimously  elected  President,  and  continued  ever  since  to  fill 
that  honorable  station,  being  annually  re-elected  to  the  same,  with  a 
unanimity  of  feeling,  that  loudly  attested  his  worth,  and  his  importance 
to  the  Club. 

But  whilst  his  experience  and  practical  knowledge  were  invaluable, 
his  social  qualities,  at  the  same  time,  endeared  him  to  all.  Every  one 
must  remember  the  kind  and  gracious  manner  in  whiidi,  for  many  years, 
he  presided  at  our  festive  board — the  happiness  he  was  instrumental  in 
imparting,  and  the  enjoyment  he  never  failed  to  quicken  in  those  around 
him — in  short,  his  whole  deportment  and  feelings,  whether  on  the  turf, 
or  at  the  social  board,  eloquently  proclaimed  him  the  high-minded  South 
Carolina  Sportsman — the  amiable  and  the  courteous  South  Cai'olinq, 
Gentleman. 


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The  members  of  tliis  Club,  then,  loolcing  back  upon  the  days  of  theii* 
intercourse  with  liim,  as  some  delightful  dream,  at  many  a  suoceedino;  an- 
niversary, will  atTectionately  revive  the  times,  spent  with  their  lamented 
President.  In  memory's  glass,  they  will  preserve,  and  keep  fresh,  like 
flowers  in  water,  those  happier  days,  when  their  souls,  linked  in  one, 
chained  their  hearts  together. 

It  is  unusual,  in  an  Association  like  this,  to  expatiate  upon  the  char- 
acter of  a  deceased  member,  however  elevated  the  position  of  that  mem- 
ber ni'iy  have  been.  But  as  Col.  Pinck.vey  was  long  identified  with 
this  Club,  by  the  manifestation  of  a  peculiar  zeal  in  the  promotion  of 
its  interests — by  a  usefulness  and  value  universally  acknowledged — by  a 
character  lield  in  high  esteem  by  all  who  were  associated  with  him  as 
members  of  this  Club,  an  affectionate  impulse  prompts  us,  now,  that  we 
see,  for  the  first  time,  his  place  vacant,  and  will  see  him  here  no  more, 
to  give  expression  to  oar  remembrance,  and  our  estimate  of  his  many  ex- 
cellent qualities,  official  as  well  as  social. 

In  honor  of  his  memory,  therefore,  be  it — 

Resolved,  That  the  members  of  this  Club  received,  with  feelings  of 
the  fleepest  sensibility,  with  a  sorrow  the  most  profound,. the  intclligenco 
of  the  death  of  their  President,  Col.  Pinckney. 

Eesoloed,  That  the  above  Preamble  and  Resolution  be  entered  on  the 
Minutes,  and  as  a  still  further  mark  of  respect  for  the  memory  of  the 
deceased,  this  Club  do  now  adjourn. 

Gov.  "Wilson  then  moved  that  the  above  Report  be  accepted,  and  that 
the  same  be  publislied. 

1844. —  Wednesday,  Feb.  21. — Jockey  Club  Purse,  $1,000. — 4  mile 
heats,  free  for  all  ages,  weight  for  age. 

Col  WLUiam3on's  b.  h.  Regent,  4  yrs  ,  by  Priam,  out  of  Fantail, 

by  Sir  Archy,     .         .  11 

Starke  &  Perry's  b  f  Lucy  Abbott,  4  yrs.,  by  Bertrand  Jr.,  dam  Ma- 
caw, by  Pioanoke ..32 

Col.  Singleton's  ch  c.  Hero,  4  yrs  ,  by  Bertrand  Jr.,  out  of  imp'd 

"  Mania, 2        3 

Col.  Hampton's  b.  f.  Margaret  Wood,  3  yrs.,  by  Priam,  out  of  Ma- 
ria West, dis. 

I        Dr.  Guignard's  b    h.  Edisto,  6  yrs.,  by  imp'd  Roirton,  out  of  Em- 
press, by  Henry, dis. 

Lewis  Lovell's  cb.  g.  Brandy,  4  yrs  ,  by  Bascombe,  out  of  Patsey 

AVallacc,     .         .         .         .        • dis. 

Time — 1st  heat,  Y  m.  55  sec;  2d  heat,  7  m.  58  sec. 

The  contest  in  both  Iieats  between  the  three  first  was  very  close  and 
beautiful — the  finish  of  the  last  heat  highly  exciting,  won  only  b// a  head. 
Margaret  Wood  was  girthed  so  tight  as  to  affect  her  respiration,  and  to 
deprive  her  consequently  of  all  chance  for  the  race. 


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Same  day — Second  Race. — Jockey  Club  Purse,  llOO. — 1  mile  heats, 
conditions  ns  before. 

James  Ileyward's  ch   f.  Frances  Amanda,  3  yrs.  old,  by  Pennoyer, 

dam  Sally  Magrath .11 

W.  H.  Sinkler's  blk.  f.  Girth,  4  yrs.  old,  by  Saddler,  dam  by  Veloci- 
pede         2        2 

Col.  AYilliarason's  b.  f.  Tisannah,  3  yrs.  old,  by  Benbow,  dam  by 

Eclipse 2        3 

J.  L.  Wilson's  ch.  c.  Crackaway,  2  yrs.  old,  by  Marmaduke,  out  of 

Last  Scrap,         .........        4        4 

Time — 1st  lieat,  1  m.  54  sec;  2d  heat,  1  m.  56  sec. 
Second  day — Thursday,  Feb  22. — 3  mile  heats. — Jockey  Club  Purse, 
$750,  conditions  as  on  first  day. 

Col.  Singleton's  b.  f.  Symmetry,  3  yra  ,  by  Priam,  out  of  Phenome- 
non, by  Sir  Archy.      ........ 

«  James  Williamson's  b.  h,  Eutaw,  6  yrs.,  by  Chat^u  Margaux,  dam 
by  Sir  Charles, 

George  McCalla's  b.  h.  Billy  Gay,  5  yrs.  old,  by  imp.  Hedge- 
ford,  out  of  Mary  Frances, 

W.  Sink'er's  eh.  h.  Santa  Anna,  aged,  by  Bertrand  Jr  ,  out  of  Dai- 
sy  

Time — 1st  heat,  5  ra.  51  sec;  2d  heat,  5  m.  54  sec. 

Col.  Singleton's  filly  has  been  most  hapnily  named.  She  is  Symme- 
try, indeed,  by  nature,  as  well  as  by  name,  possessing  tlic  most  superb 
action  we  have  seen  for  many  years.  She  won  both  heats  in  this  race 
with  her  ears  playing  as  gracefully  as  if  she  had  been  taking  her  ordi- 
nary exercise. 

Second  Race. — 2  mile  heats,  weight  for  age. 

Mr.  Williamson'j  ch.  f.  Marchioness,  4  yrs  old,  by  Rowton,  dam  by 

Sir  Archy,  .  .......         1         1 

Mr.  Sinkler's  ch.  m   Zoe,  5  yrs.  old,  by  EoTvtoD,  out  of  Leocadia,    .         2        2 
Lewis   Lovell's  ch.  c.  Morgan,  4  yrs.,  by  Bascombe,  out  of  Amy 

Hampton,  by  Crusader,      ...••..        3        3 

Time — 1st  heat,  3  ra.  54  sec;  2d  heat,  3  m.  55  sec. 
Third  day. — Friday,  Feb.  22. — 2  mile  heats. — Jockey  Club  Purse, 
),  conditions  as  on  other  days. 

Mr   Ilarleston's  b   f.  Sally  Morgan,  4  yrs  ,  by  Emancipation,  out  of 

L'ftdy  Morgan,  ...•.•...  1         1 

Col.  Wiliamson's  br.  h.  Brown  Stout,  5  yrs.,  by  Sarpedon,  dam  by 

Tonson,      .         .         •                  3        2 

Lewis  Lovell's  ch.  m.  Rlary  Elizabeth,  aged,  by  Andrew,  dnm  by 

Gallatin,     • 2         3 

Mr.  Sinkler's  br.  c  Champion,  3  yrs.,  by  Tarquin,  out  of  Manin,    .  4        4 

Mr.  Ileyward's  br.  c.  Clarendon,  3  )'r3.,  by  Priam,  out  of  Last  Scrap,  5        5 

Col.  Singleton's  imp.  b.  m.,  5  yrs.,  by  Glaueus,  out  of  Chri.'tabel,      .  dist. 

Dr.  Guignard's  b.  f.,  3  yrs ,  by  Hybiscus,  out  of  Empress,  by  Henry,  dist. 


Time — 1st  heat,  3  m.  51  sec;  2d  heat,  3  m.  48  sec. 
Same  day — Second  Race. — 2  mile  heats. — Purse,  $100,  conditions  as 
before. 

Mr.  Williamson's  ch.  f.  Taglioni,  4  yrs,  by  Priam,  dam  by  Sir 

Charles, ■         ...         1         1 

Mr.  Richardson's  ch.  m.  Zo8,  5  yrs.,  by  Rowton,  out  of  Leocadia,         2        dr. 

Time — 1st  heat,  3  m.  55  sec. 

Saturday ^  Feb.  24. — Handicap  Race. — 3  mile. heats. 

Col.  Williamson's  b.  h.  Regent,  pedigree  already  given,  4  yrs,  102 

lbs.,      ...•■» 11 

Starke  &  Perry's  b.  f.  Lucy  Abbott,  pedigree  already  given,  4  yrs., 

97  lbs. 3  br.  down. 

Col.  Singleton's  b.  f.  Symmetry,  pedigree  already  given,   3  yrs., 

87  lbs., 2  drawn. 

Time — 1st  heat,  5  m.  52  sec;  2d  heat,  5  m.  57  sec. 

Same  day — Second  Rac*e. — Best  3  in  5. — Si 50,  weight  for  age. 

James  Williamson's  ch.  f.  Marchioness^  4  yrs.  old,  by  Rowton,  dam 

by  Sir  Arehy -.111 

George  McCalla's  b.  m.  Nancy  Rowland,  5  yrs.,  by  imp.  Rowton, 

dam  by  Rob  Roy,         .* 2     2     2 

W.  H.  Sinkler's  bl.  f.  Girth,  3  yrs.,  by  The  Saddler,  dam  by  Veloci- 
pede,     333 

Time — 1st  heat,  1  m.  53  ^.\  2d  heat,  1  m.  54  sec;  3d  heat,  1  m. 

59  sec. 

Several  important  improvements  are  contemplated  by  the  Club,  so  that 
the  season  of  1845  will  be  on  a  larger  and  more  splendid  scale,  and 
more  complete  in  every  respect,  and  conducive  to  sport.  Tj^^e  enclosure 
by  the  Grand  Stand  will  be  increased  nearly  double. its  present  size,  for 
the  better  accommodation  of  the  members  of  the  Club,  and  the  rubbing 
down  the  horses  between  the  heats.  And  in  order  tljat  eacli  succeeding 
year  may  add  to  the  already  high  and  liberal  character,  which  the  South 
Carolina  Jockey  Club  has  obtained.,  in  the  sporting  world,  it  has  been 
resolved  to  increase  the  value  of  its  Purses,  which  will  be  seen  by  the 
following  Rule  and  Resolution,  which  was  passed  o^  Saturday  evening 
last : 

RULE    XII. THE    PURSES.  ;  ^ 

The  Club  will  annually  appropriate,  by  resolution,  a  fund  for  the  regu- 
lar Jockey  Club  Purses,  and  will,  also,  give  for  a  second  race  on  Wed- 
nesday, $100,  mile  heats;  on  Thursday  and  Friday,  $150,. 2  mile  heats; 
and  on  Saturday,  $200,  a  single  heat  of  3  miles.  The  horses  that  shall 
on  either  day  win  either  of  the  above  second  races,  shall  not  be  permit- 
ted to  start  again,  except  for  the  Saturday's  second  race,  or  for  one  of 


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the  regular  Purses.  Weights  for  age  on  cacli  day,  and  the  entries  to  be 
made  according  to  the  4th  Rule.  The  entrance  money  for  each  of  the 
second  races  shall  be  $5  a  mile. 

Resolved,  That  the  Purses  to  be  given  by  the  Club  at  their  Annual 
Meeting,  (1845.)  shall  be  as  follows  : 

For  the  4  mile  day,  $1,500,  of  which  $300  shall  go  to  the  horse  that 
shall  be  second  in  the  race,  provided  four  start.  If  less  than  four  start, 
the  Purse  to  be  $1,000.  as  heretofore,  the  whole  of  which  shall  then  be 
given  to  the  winner. 

For  the  3  mile  day, $750 

For  the  2  mile  day, 500 

To  the  next  season,  then,  we  confidently  look  for  many  strong  stables, 
and  an  increase  of  sport.  The  campaign  will,  we  have  no  doubt,  sur- 
pass all  former  experience,  more  especially  if  our  suggestions,  and  the 
promises  of  improvement  on  the  Course,  are  effectually  carried  out. 

The  above  amount  of  $1,500,  fixed  by  the  Club  for  the  Purse  on  the  4 
mile  day,  1845,  was,  at  an  extra  meeting  of  the  Club,  October  24t,h,  1844, 
augmented  to  $2,500,  on  condition  that  Fashion  would  conipcto  tor  the 
same.  It  was  communicated  to  the  Club,  that  the  owners  of  Peytona 
and  Kegent  had  entertained  the  idea  of  coming  to  Charleston  at  the  next 
meeting;  and  that  it  was,  also,  probable,  Fashion  would  be  brought 
South.  The  Club  is  disposed,  if  these  cracks  will  only  come,  and  take 
part  in  our  next  Races,  to  give  them  a  warm  and  substantial  Avelcome. 

1845. —  Wednesday,  Feb.  19. — Jockey  Club  Purse,  $1,500. — 4  milo 
heats. — $1,200  to  be  given  to  the  winner,  $300  to  the  second  best  in  the 
Race,  weight  for  age. 

Col.  Hampton's  b.  m  Sally  Morgan,  5  3'rs.  old,  by  EmaneipatioD, 

out  of  Lady  Morgan, 11 

Mr.  Mackay's  b.  h.  Eutaw,  7  yrs.  old,  by  imp.  Chateau  Margaiw, 

dam  by  Sir  Charles, 2        2 

Dr.  Heyward's  ch.  f. ,  4  yrs.  old,  by  imp.  Trustee,  out  of 

Dame  Quickley,  by  Eclipse, 3        dr. 

Col.  Singleton's  eh.  e.  Hero,  5  yrs.  old,  by  Bertrand  Jr.,  out  of  imp. 

Mania,         . 4        dr. 

Mr.   Fenner's  b.  h.   Oregon,  4  yrs.  old,  by  Philip,  dam  by  imp. 

Luzborough,        •....•...        dis. 
Col.  Williamson's  b.  h  Regent,  5  yrs.  old,  by  Priam,  out  of  Fantail, 

by  Sir  Archy,      .         .         .         • br.  down. 

Time — 1st  heat,  7  m.  58  sec. ;  2d  heat,  8  m.  6  sec. 
Second  Race. — 1  mile  heats,  $100,  conditions  as  before. 

Col.  Williamson's  b.  f.  Mabry  Winn,  4  yrs   old,  by  Rowton  ,  dam 

by  Sir  Archy,       • 2        Iw.or. 

Mr  Fennel's  ch.  g.  Jack,  aged,  by  Modoc,  dam  by  Sumter,  .        .        1        dis. 


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Dr.  Cordes'  ch.  m.  Lady  Tanny,  5  yrs.  old,  by  Emancipation,  dam 

by  Godolpbin dis. 

Time — 1st  heat,  1  m.  52  sec;  2d  heat,  1  m.  52  sec. 
ThiirsdaT/,  Feb.  20. — Jockey  Club  Purse,  $Y50. — 3  mile  heats,  condi- 
tions as  before. 

Col.  Williamson's  ch.  f.  Marchioness,  5  yrs.  old,  by  Rowton,  dam  by 

Sir  Archy, 11 

Col.  Hampton's  ch.  f.  Castanet,  3  yrs.  old,  by   Monarch,  dam  by 

Kos:iusko, 2        2 

Col.  Singleton's  b  f.  Symmetry,  4  yrs.  old,  by  Priam,  out  of  Phe- 
nomena,       3        3 

Time — 1st  heat,  5  m,  59  sec.  ;  2d  lieat,  6  m. 

Sa7ne  day — Second  Race. — 2  mile  heats,  $150,  conditions  as  before. 

Mr.  'Williamson's  bl.  h.  Signal,  4  yrs.  old,  by  Margrave,  dam  by 

Tonson, 11 

Mr.  T.  J.  Walton's  ch.  m.  Mary  Elizabeth,  aged,  by  Andrew,  dam  by 

Gallatin, 2        2 

Mr.  Fenner's  ch.  c.  Crackaway,  3  yrs.  old,  by  Marmaduke,  dam  Last 

Scrap, broke  down. 

Time — 1st  heat,  3  m.  50  sec;  2d  heat,  3  m.  50  sec. 
Friday.,  Feb.  21. — Jockey  Club  Purse,  $500. — 2  mile  heats,  condi- 
tions as  before. 

Col.  Singleton's  br.  c.  Champion,  4  yrs.,  by  Tarquin,  out  of  Hero's 

dam, 3      11 

Col.  Hampton's  b  f.  Margaret  Woods,  4  yrs  ,  by  imp.  Priam,  out  of 

Maria  West, 422 

Col.  Williamson's  b.  c.  Victor,  3  yrs.,  by  Cetus,  out  of  My  Lady,    .13     3 

Dr.  HeywarJ's  ch.  f.  Frances  Amanda,  4  yrs.,  by  Pennoyer,  out  of 

Sally  Magrath,  • 2      dis. 

Time — 1st  heat,  3  m.  50  sec;  2d  heat,  3  m.  55  sec;  3d  heat,  4  m,  6 
sec 

Same  day — Second  Race. — Jockey  Club  Purse,  |150. — 2  mile  heatr, 
conditions  as  before. 

Mr.  Williamson's  ch.  m.  Taglioni,  5  yrs.,  by  Priam,  dam  by  Sir 

Charles, 11 

Mr.  Fenner's  ch.  f.  Tellulah,  4  jts  ,  by  Eclipse,  dam  Polly  Hop- 
kins,   -..32 

Mr.  Sinklcr's  ch.  f.  Orphaline,  3   yrs.,  by  Rienzi,  dam  by  Clair- 

mont, 2        3 

Time — 1st  heat,  2  m.;  2d  heat,  2  m. 

Saturday,  Feb.  22. — Handicap  Race. — 3  mile  heats. 

Col.  Hampton's  b.  m.  Sally  Morgan,  5  yrs.,  109  lbs  ,  ...  1  1 
Col.  Williamson's  ch.  f.  Marchioness,  5  yrs.,  109  lbs  ,  •  .  .  2  2 
Dr.  Heyward's  ch.  f.  4  yrs.,  by  imp.  Trustee,  90  lbs  ,      .        •        .        3        dis. 

Time — 1st  heat,  5  m.  57  sec;  2d  heat,  6  m. 


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Sa77ie  day — Second  i?acf.— Single  licat  of  3  miles,  $200,  Aveiglit  for 
age. 

Col.  Williamson's  ch.  m.  Tnglioni,  5  yrs 1 

Mr.  Walton's  eh.  m  Mary  Elizabeth,  aged, 2 

Dr.  lleyward's  ch.  f.  Frances  Amanda,  4  yrs  , 3 

Time — 1  m.  53  sec. 

Some  changes  have  been  made  since  last  year  in  the  rules  and  regu- 
lations of  the  Club,  which  it  is*  important  to  notice.  The  entries  for  each 
day's  race  must  now  be  made  on  the  evening  previous  with  the  Stew- 
ards ;  and  the  second  race  on  Saturday,  instead  of  being  as  hereto- 
fore, a  race  of  mile  heats,  best  of  three  in  five,  is  now  a  single  lieat  of 
three  miles.  The  amount  of  the  purses,  too,  has  been  considerably  in- 
creased this  season.  Instead  of  a  purse  on  the  four  mile  day  of  'i;l,000, 
it  is  now  a  purse  of -$1,500 — $1,200  to  be  given  to  the  winner,  and  fSOO 
to  the  horse  that  shall  be  second  best  in  the  race.  This,  of  course,  in- 
sures a  greater  competition  for  the  second  place,  and  will  materially  add 
to  the  interest  of  the  contest. 

Another  reformation  proposed  by  the  Club  is,  that  every  person  entering 
a  horse  for  any  race  over  the  Washington  Course,  shall  have  previously 
reo-istered  on  the  books  of  the  Secretary,  the  colors  his  Jockey  is  to 
wear.  \Yhen  once  recorded,  the  right  to  that  color  to  be  perpelual, 
and  no  other  person  is  to  use  the  same.  The  following  gentlemen  have 
designated  and  claimed  tlic  colors,  which  are  attached  to  their  names 
below  : 

Richard  Singleton — Red  jacket,  black  sleeves,  black,  cap. 

Wade  Hampton — Blue  jacket,  red  sleeves,  blue  cap. 

W.  Sinkler — Red  jacket  and  cap. 

James  Williamson,  of  Virginia — Blue  jacket,  blackcap. 

Captain  Rowe — Green  jacket  and  cap. 

0.  P.  Hare— Red  and  white. 

W.  Lowndes — Orange  jacket,  red  sleeves,  black  cap. 

John  Bryant — Green. 

John  Singleton — Fancy  Dress. 

The  propriety  of  paying  more  attention  than  has  hitherto  been  the 
case,  to  the  costume  of  our  Jockics,  is  becoming  more  and  more  mani- 
fest cveiy  year  throughout  our  country.  As  we  are  rivalling  our  sport- 
ing friends  on  the  other  side  of  the  water  in  our  horses,  why  should  we 
not  endeavor  to  approach  them  in  the  skill  and  appearance  of  (hose, 
who  are  "  to  steer  them  to  the  goal  of  f^une  ?"  Every  occupation  has, 
and  must  have,  a  distinctive  dress — a  jockey,  no  less  than  any  other 
professional  man.  It  behoves  all,  then,  who  are  in  any  way  interested 
in  keeping  up  the  respectability  of  this  profession,  to  provide  that  its 


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dress  is  a  becoming  and  proper  one.  Who  has  not  seen'a  superb  animal, 
the  very  type  and  pride  of  beauty,  arching  his  glossy  neck,  and  tossing 
his  spirited  head  on  high,  before  the  eyes  of  an  admiring  crowd, 
mounted  by  a  little  dirty  specimen  of  humanity,  in  his  shirt  sleeves,  rag- 
ged trowsers  and  shoeless  feet.  These  liveries  of  a  young  country  are 
rarely  to  be  met  with,  it  is  true,  now-a  days  ;  yet  they  will,  from  time 
to  time,  be  seen,  unless  some  measure  be  adopted  by  common  consent 
of  all  our  clubs  throughout  the  country,  to  banish  them  from  onr  courses. 
We  propose  that  the  dress  of  the  English  Jockey  be  adopted.  Can  any 
thing  be  more  appropriate,  more  beautiful,  than  his  silk  jacket  and  cap, 
his  buckskin  breeches,  fitting  snugly  to  the  thigh  and  knee,  with  a  neat 
and  light  top  boot  completing  the  outfit  ? 

It  is  a  standing  rule  in  England,  that  no  person  shall  be  qualified  to 
mount  at  any  race  course,  unless  dressed  in  this  way.  If  the  leading 
(itubs  in  this  country  would  but  pass  a  similar  law,  we  venture  to  say,  it 
would,  in  a  short  time,  be  a  very  popular  rule,  universally  adopted,  not 
only  for 'the  additional  good  appearance  it  would  impart  to  our  races, 
but  for  the  comfort  and  security  it  would  afford  to  our  Jockies. 

We  have  another  improvement  to  notice  in  the  regulation  of  our 
Club.  An  officer  is  appointed,  whose  oflSce  it  is  to  start  the  horses.  The 
experiment  was  tried  at  our  last  races,  and  worked  admirably.  By  its 
being  made  the  business  of  one  individual,  the  grooms  and  riders  become 
known  to  him,  and  he  to  them ;  so  that  by  a  very  little  previous  under- 
standing, the  horses  are  brought  up,  and  got  oft"  without  any  of  that 
confusion  and  delay,  which  the  uninitiated  may  think  almost  inseparable 
from  such  an  undertaking.  Practice  in  this,  as  in  every  thing  else,  makes 
perfect.  A  fair  start  can  certainly  be  made  by  one,  who  has  a  quick  eye, 
good  head,  can  keep  cool  and  collected,  and  is  willing  to  give  a  proper 
attention  to  it. 

It  was — 

Resolved^  in  future,  That  the  Handicap  Race  on  Saturday,  instead  of 
consisting  of  the  Gate  Money,  as  heretofore,  be  fixed  at  the  specific 
sum  of  1600. 

1846. —  Wednesday,  Feb.  18.— Jockey  Club  Purse,  $1,000.— Free  for 
all  ages,  weight  for  age. 

W.  M  Myers'  b.  c.  Childe  Harold,  3  yrs.,  by  Sovereign,  out  of  Ma- 
ria West,  (Chisolm,) 11 

Pressly  Shroyer's  eh.  g.  Jerry  Lancaster,  5  yrs  ,  by  Mark  Moore, 

damby  Gobanna, 3        2 

W.ade  Hampton's  b.  m  Sally  Morgan,  6  yrs.,  by  imp.  Emancipa- 
tion, out  of  Lady  Morgan 2        3 

Time— 1st  heat,  8  m.  3^  sec;  2d  heat,  8  m.  ]4  sec.    Childe  Harold  is 


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a  fine,  strong  colt,  and  is  destined  to  make  popular  the  stock  of  his  sire, 
Sovereign,  one  of  Col.  Hampton's  importations  from  England  in   183 '7. 
Same  day— Second  Race.— I  mile  heats,  $100,  conditions  as  before. 
N.  Green's  b.  m.  Fanny  Koberson,  6  yrs  ,  by  Priam,  dam  Arietta, 

by  Virginian,     .         .  ....•••!  1 

Mr.  Sinkler's  cb.  f.  Orpbeline,  4  yrs.,  by  Rienzi,  dam  by  Claremont,        2        2 
Mr.  Lowndes'  b.  f.  Nightmare,  3  yrs.,  by  Argyle,  dam  Zela,    .         .        3        dr. 

Time — 1  m.  58  sec;  2d  heat,  2  m.     Won  easily. 
Thursday,  Feb.  19. — Jockey  Club  Purse,  $750.  —3  mile  heats,  condi- 
tions as  before. 

Col.  Hampton's  ch.  f.  Castanet,  4  yrs.,  by  Monarch,  out  of  Betsey 

Robbins, 12      1 

W.  M.  Myeis'  b  h.  Rodney,  5  yrs.,  by  Priam,  dam  by  John  Richards,  2      12 

Col.  Singleton's  br.  h.  Champion,  5  yrs.,  by  Tarquin,  out  of  imp. 

Mania,        . 3    3     dr. 

Mr.  Lowndes'  ch.  f.  Stella,  4  yrs.,  by  Young  Rowton,  out  of  Zela,   .  4    dis. 

Time — 1st  heat,  6  m.  4  sec;  2d  heat,  5  m.  59  sec  3d  heat,  6  m,  9 
sec 

Same  day — Second  Race. — Jockey  Club  Purse,  $150. — 2  mile  heats, 
conditions  as  before. 

J.  C.  Singleton's  ch.  m.  Maid  of  Lodi,  5  yrs.,  by  Hualpa,  dam  by 

Phenomenon, '211 

W.  M.  Myers'  b.  m.  Andrewanna,  6  yrs.,  by  Andrew,  dam  by  Go- 

hanna, ..322 

W.  A.  Porter's  ch.  m.  Taglioni,  6  yrs.,  by  Priam,  dam  by  Sir  Charles,     1      3     dr. 

Time — 1st  heat,  4  m,  3  sec;  2d  heat,  3  m.  59  sec;  3d  heat,  4  m.  9 
sec 

Friday,  Feb.  20. — Jockey  Club  Purse,  $500. — 2  mile  heats,  conditions 
as  before. 

Col.  Hampton's  ch.  h.  Stanley  Eclipse,  6  yrs.,  by  Busiris,  dam  by 

John  Stanley, 11 

Col.  Singleton's  b.  m.  Symmetry,  5  yrs.,  by  Priam,  out  of  Phe- 
nomena,  22 

Time — 1st  heat,  4  m.  3  sec;  2d  heat,  3  m.  58  sec 
Same  day — Second  Race. — Jockey  Club  Purse,  $150. — 2  mile  heats, 
conditions  as  before. 

J.  C.  Singleton's  b.  f.  Bellamira,  3  yrs.,  by  Monarch,  out  of  Kitty 

Heath 11 

W.  M.  Myers'  ch.  f.,  3  yrs.,  by  Billy  Harris,  out  of  Lady  Morgan,         2        2 

Time — 1st  heat,  3  ra.  59  sec;  2d  heat,  4  m.  13  sec. 
Saturday,  Feb.  21. — Handicap  Race,  $600. — 3  mile  heats. 

W.  M.  Myers'  b.  c.  Childe  Harold,  3  yrs,  90  lbs.,  ....  1  1 
Maj.  Shroyer's  ch.  g.  Jerry  Lancaster,  5  yrs.,  100  lbs.,  ...  3  2 
Wade  Hampton's  b.m.  Sally  Morgan,  6  yrs.,  108  lbs.,      ...        2        3 

Time — 1st  heat,  6  m.  3  sec;  2d  heat,  5  m.  56  sec. 


Same  day — Second  JRace. — Purse,  $200. — Single  3  miles,  weight  for 
age. 

J.  C.  Singleton's  ch.  m.  Maid  of  Lodi,  5  yrs, 1 

W.  M.  Myers,  ch.  m.  Taglioni,  6  yrs., 2 

W.  Hampton's  ch.  f.  Castanet,  4  yrs., 3 

Time — -5  ra.  59  sec, 

1847. —  Tuesdcuj,  Feb.  16. — Sweepstakes  for  Colts  and  Fillies  2  yrs. 
old. — 1  mile  heats.— Colts  to  carry  85  lbs.,  fillies  82  lbs. — Entrance  $100 
— $50  forfeit,  if  declared  by  the  1st  of  the  year. 

Mr.  Lowndes'  ch.  f.,  by  Leviathan,  dam  imported  Anna  Maria,  received 
forfeit  from  R.  C.  Myers'  b.  f.,  by  Priam,  dam  by  Leviathan. 

Wednesday,  Feb.  17.— Jockey  Club  Purse,  $1,000.-4  mile  heats, 
weights  for  age. 

Mr.  John  Singleton's  ch.  m.  Maid  of  Lodi,  6  yrs.,  by  Hualpa,  dam 

by  Phenomenon, 3      11 

^      Col.  Ilampton's  ch  m  Castanet,  5  yrs.,  by  Monarch,  out  of  Betsey 

Robbing, 12      2 

Mr.  0.  p.  Hare's  b.  m.  Patsey  Anthony,  6  yrs.,  by  Priam,  dam  by 

Virginian, 2      3     dis. 

Time — 1st  heat,  8  m.  2  sec;  2d  heat,  8  m.  7  sec;  3d  heat,  8  m.  27 
sec 

Same  day. — Hutchinson  Sweepstakes,  3  yrs.  old. — Heats,  2  miles. — 
$250  entrance — $50  forfeit,  if  declared  before  the  1st  November  last — 
$100  after  that  time — closed  1st  May. — Tf  three  or  more  start,  the  Club 
to  add  $500. — Colts  carry  90  lbs.,  fillies  87  lbs. 

0.  p.  Hare's  b.  c.  Revenue,  by  Trustee,  out  of  Rosalie  Somers, 

by  Sir  Charles, 4      13     1 

Mr  Sinkler's  ch.  c  ,  by  Shark,  out  of  Atalanta,  .         .        .         .5212 

Donald  Rowe's  b.  c.  Rio  Grande,  by  Billy  Harris,  out  of  Lady 

Morgan,        .         .         .         • 144     dis. 

Wm.  Lowndes' ch.  f  ,  by  American  Eclipse,  dam  by  Sir  Charles,  3      3      2    r.  out. 

Rich'd  Singleton's  b.  f.,  by  imp.  Monarch,  out  of  Blind  Lottery,  2     dis. 

Wade  Hampton's  b.  c,  by  imp'd  Monarch,  out  of  imp'd  Miss  Acci- 
dent, paid  forfeit. 

R.  Singleton's  b.  f.,by  imp'd  Monarch,  out  of  imp'd  Langarmare,  paid 
forfeit. 

O.  P.  Hare's  gr.  f.,  by  Boston,  out  of  Andrewetta,  paid  forfeit. 

W.  M.  Myer's  br.  f.  by  Leviathan,  dam  by  Stockholder,  paid  forfeit. 

John  C.  O'Hanlon's  b.  c,  by  Argyle,  dam  by  Sarpedon,  paid  forfeit. 

R.  C.  Myers'  ch.  f.,  by  Leviathan,  out  of  Cora,  by  Eclipse,  paid  forfeit. 

J.  F.  A.'s  b.  c,  by  iVrgyle,  dam  by  Godolphin,  jiaid  forfeit. 

J.  F.  Gamble's  b.  f.,  by  Argyle,  dam  by  imp'd  Emancipation,  paid 
forfeit. 


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Calvin  Green's  ch.  c.  by  Trustee,  out  of  gr.  m.  Fly,  by  Gohanna,  paid 
forfeit. 

John  M.  Botts'  1).  c.,  by  Cetus,  dam  Spindle, by  Gohanna,  paid  forfeit. 
Time — 1st  heat,  3  m.  oOf  sec;  2d  heat,  3  m.  47|-  see.;  3d  heat,  3  m. 
5 If  sec;  4th  heat,  3  m.  54  sec 

Tkuradciy,  Fch.  18. — Jockey  Club  Purse,  $750. — 3  mile  heats,  condi- 
tions as  before. 

Col    Hampton's  gr.  m.   Anti-Tariff,  5  yrs ,  by  Convention,  out  of 

imp   mare,  by  Velocipeilo, 2      11 

0.  P.  Hare's  br.  h.  Protection,  4  yrs.,  by  Holla,  dam  Rosalie  Somers,     1      2     dr. 
John  Pv   Harrison's  ch.  c  John  Alexander,  4  yrs.,  by  Wagner,  out 

of  Flora, distanced. 

Time — 1st  heat,  5  m.  50^  sec;  2d  heat,  5  ra.  55  sec. 

Same  day. — Second  Race. — Jockey  Club  Purse,  $150. — 2  mile  heats, 

conditions  as  before. 

John  Singleton's  b.  f,  by  Oano,  4  yrs.  old,         ....-11 
John  R.  Harrison's  b  m.  Victoria,  aged,  by  Rowton,  out  of  Bacchus 

marc,  ....  22 

Both  heats  won  easily. 

Time — 1st  heat,  3  m.  57  sec  ;  2d  heat,  4  m.  1  sec. 
Friday,  Feb.   19. — Jockey  Club  Purse,  $500. — 2  mile  heats,  condi- 
tions as  before. 

0.  P.  Hare's  ch.  f.  Mariett.a,  4  yrs.  old,  by  Priam,  dam  Canary,  by 

Sir  Charles, .         .311 

J.  C  Singleton's  b.  f ,  4  yrs.  old,  by  Gano, 5      4      2 

John  R.   Han-isou's  ch.  f.  Rosa  Lee^  4  yrs  ,  by  Boston,  dam  imp. 

Emily, 123 

J.  M.  Bryan's  gr.  f ,  4  yrs  ,  by  Hardluck,  out  of  Vashtie,  by  Levia- 
than  454 

W.  Lowndes' gr.f.  Delta,  4  yrs.,  by  Pacific,  dam  by  Sir  Richard,    .235 

Time — 1st  heat,  3  m.  49  sec;  2d  heat,  3  m.  50  sec;  3d  heat,  3  m. 
52  sec 

Same  day — Second  Race. — Jockey  Club  Purse,  $150. — 2  mile  heats, 
conditions  as  before. 

11.  Singleton's  b.  f.  Bellamira,  4  yrs.,  by  Monarch,  out  of  Kitty 

Heath 1 

J.  R.  Harrison's  eh.  f.  Aurora,  4  yrs.,  by  Argyle,  out  of  Lady  Deer- 
pond, 22 

Time — 1st  heat,  3  m.  59  sec;  2d  heat,  4  m.  7  sec. 

Saturday,  Feb.  20. — Handicap  Race. — 3  mile  heats. — $600. 

0.  P.  ILire's  b.  c  Revenue,  3  yrs  ,  90  lbs., 1         1 

Col.  Hampton's  gr.m.  Anti-Tariff,  5  yrs  ,  109  lbs  ,  .         ...        2        2 
J.  R  Harrison's  ch.  c.  John  Alexander,  4  yrs.,  a  feather,         .        .        3        dr. 

Time — 1st  heat,  5  m.  53  sec;  2d  heat,  5  m.  57f  sec. 


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Same  da]/ — Second  Race. — Jockey  Club  Purse,  $200. — Single  heat  of 
3  uiiles,  weights  for  age. 

0.  P.  Hare's  br.  h.  Protection,  4  yrs.,  102  lbs. 1 

J.  R.  Harrison's  b.  m.  Victoria,  aged,  126  lbs.,  .        .        •         .         .        2 

Time — 6  m.  4  sec. 

Thus  terminated  the  Races  over  the  Washington  Course  for  1847.  The 
sport  has  been  good  throughout,  as  the  time  reported  of  the  different 
heats  will  show.  The  pleasure  diffused  seemed  to  be  general,  with  but 
one  drawback,  the  unavoidable  absence  of  one  whose  presence  has  al- 
ways added  a  lustre  to  our  meetings.  By  the  influence  of  a  lofty  char- 
acter and  commanding  example,  he  has  not  only  given  encouragement 
to  our  local  sport,  but  exercised  an  influence,  in  the  administration  of  our 
affairs,  which  has  greatly  assisted  in  putting  the  South  Carolina  Jockey 
Club  upon  its  present  elevated  position.  We,  of  course,  allude  to  no  other 
than  to  Col.  Wade  Hampton.  The  regret  felt  for  the  deprivation  of  his 
presence,  however,  was,  in  some  degree,  mitigated,  by  the  attendance 
of  another  of  the  old  habitues  of  our  Course,  Col.  Singleton,  whose  re- 
cent severe  illness  led  us  to  apprehend  he  would,  also,  necessarily  be  ab- 
sent. We  trust  that  with  renewed  strength,  and  health,  and  spirits, 
many  days  are  yet  in  store  for  him,  and  that  he  may  long  be  spared  to 
us,  one  of  our  boasts  and  ornaments,  as  he  is  of  the  Southern  Turf. 

Upon  the  whole,  we  may  congratulate  the  lovers  of  the  Turf  among 
us,  on  having  had  a  very  satisfactor}'^  and  agreeable  week,  to  which  the 
uninterrupted  favorable  state  of  the  weather  greatly  contributed. 

There  was  a  very  crowded  attendance  on  Saturday  evening  at  the  clos- 
ing meeting  of  the  Club.  Many  arrangements  were  made  for  the  next 
season,  which  may  have  a  tendency  to  increase  the  sport,  and  augment 
the  number  of  stables  from  other  States.  The  Sweepstakes  for  3  yr. 
olds,  run  the/ Wednesday  of  this  meeting,  is  to  be  opened  again  for  next 
year.  It  was,  also,  decided  that  the  second  races,  usually  run  ort  the 
Thursday  and  Friday,  should  be  dispensed  with,  and  a  Sweepstakes  for  2 
year  olds,  mile  heats,  and  a  Sweepstake  for  3  yr.  olds,  mile  heats,  be 
substituted. 

Among  other  resolutions,  a  very  important  one  was  passed  unani- 
mously, to  impart  character  and  stability  to  all  future  Sweepstakes 
opened,  to  be  run  over  the  Washington  Course,  and  to  secure,  not  only 
a  faithful  observance  of  the  conditions  of  the  race,  but  the  froiaiit  pay- 
ment for  forfeits,  incurred  by  declarations  made  within  the  appointed 
time.     The  preamble  and  resolution  is  in  these  words : 

Wherea,s,  the  South  Carolina  Jockey  Club  has  opened  Sweepstakes 


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over  the  Waf-hington  Course,  it  becomes  important  to  take  measures  for 
securing  a  sure  and  prompt  compliance  with  the  conditions,  which  may 
be  attached  to  such  stakes :  Be  it,  therefore — 

Resolved,  That  whenever  a  subscriber  to  a  Sweepstakes  opened,  to  be 
run  over  the  Washington  Course,  shall  fail  either  to  pay  up  his  forfeit 
for  not  starting,  at  or  before  the  time  of  starting,  or  otherwise  comply 
with  the  conditions  of  the  stake,  he  shall  not  be  allowed  to  enter  a  horse 
for  any  purse  or  stake,  to  be  run  for  over  the  Course,  until  all  such  lia- 
bilities be  cancelled,  and  permission  for  entry  to  the  purses  or  stakes  be 
given  by  the  Stewards,  or  the  Clerk,  for  satisfactory  reasons  assigned. 

The  Sweepstakes  for  3  yr.  olds,  which  occupied  so  much  of  public  at- 
tention and  conversation,  previous  to  its  decision  on  Wednesday,  and 
has  afforded  so  much  matter  of  congratulation,  since  it  has  been  over, 
even  to  those  who  lost,  as  the  result  has  shown  that  a  field  of  better 
bred  ones  have  rarely,  if  ever,  been  brought  to  the  Post  in  this  country, 
and  acquitted  themselves  with  more  signal  eclat.  The  subscribers  to  this 
stake  who  started  horses,  may  lay  "this  flattering  unction  to  their  soul," 
that  they  own  a  good  horse,  and  will,  in  all  probability,  be  well  repaid, 
by  some  future  achievement,  for  any  disappointment  experienced  now. 
That  the  knowing  ones  calculate  upon  this,  may  be  deduced  from  the 
fact,  that  overtures  have  already  been  made  for  the  purchase  of  the  Shark 
colt  at  a  high  figure ;  and  although  the  "  Revenue"  did  contrive  to  Row 
the  Rio  Orande  "  up  Salt  river,"  or  as  the  little  boys  have  thought  proper 
to  pronounce  it,  "  Rye  Brandy,"  nevertheless  his  owner  still  continues 
confident  of  his  powers,  and  in  excellent  spirits  as  to  his  future  career, 
and  will  not  consent  to  part  with  him  even  at  a  long  price. 

The  more  we  reflect  upon  the  issue  of  this  race,  the  better  satisfied 
are  we,  that  a  finer  two  mile  race  has  never  been  run  on  our  Course — 
we  have  conversed  with  many  on  this  subject,  conversant  with  the  most 
remarkable  events  of  the  Turf,  by  whom  it  is  generally  conceded,  that 
they  have  never  known  it  surpassed  in  interest,  and  in  the  time  made.  It 
should  be  recollected  that  there  were  four  heats,  and  that  each  was  close- 
ly contested,  with  only  a  deviation  of  time  between  the  fastest  and  slow- 
est of  six  seconds  and  three-quarters — the  fastest  heat,  which  was  the 
second,  having  been  run  in  3  m.  41^  sec,  and  the  slowest,  being  the 
fourth,  run  in  3  m.  54  sec. 

The  winner  pocketted  two  thousand  four  hundred  and  fifty  dollars — a 
pretty  little  crura  for  our  Virginia  friends,  and  which,  we  trust,  in  addi- 
tion to  the  inducements  we  can  offer,  "of  a  fair  field  and  no  f;xvor,"  and 
the  delights  of  friendly  interchanges,  always  so  acceptable  to  the  heart 


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of  a  tliorough-bred  Virginian,  will  insure  an  annual  visit  from  them,  and 
subscription  to  om-  future  stakes. 

We  are  gratified  to  ascertain,  from  the  success  that  has  attended  the 
subscription  to  the  stakes  for  3  yr.  olds,  (this  being  the  first  year  of  it,) 
and  in  consequence  of  the  fine  race  it  ])roduced,  that  it  will  he  perpet- 
uated by  the  Club,  and  be  an  annual  affair.  Much  credit  is  due  to  the 
gentleman  who  projected  it,  Mr.  T.  IT.  Hutchinson.  It  is  to  be  desig- 
nated as  tlie  Hutchinson  Stake,  in  compliment  to  that  very  active,  zeal- 
ous and  efficient  member  of  the  South  Carohna  Jockey  Club. 

In  reference  to  the  Sweepstakes  for  2  j^ear  olds,  which  was  fixed  to 
come  off  on  Tuesday,  and  for  wliich  we  had  two  nominations,  we  will 
merely  observe,  that  this  is  the  first  year  of  this  stake — ^^just  by  way  of 
an  experiment — got  tip  like  "T/ie  Nursery  Plate''''  at  Newmarket,  which 
is  run  at  the  second  October  meeting,  and  always  commands  a  large  en- 
try, not  so  much  with  reference  to  the  amount  of  money  to  be  won  by 
it,  as  to  a  ^jJe/^/tc  trial,  with  a  view  to  subsequent  events  and  engnge- 
raents  of  greater  importance.  This  race  is  confined  to  2  year  olds,  to 
young,  untried  tilings,  hence  the  name  in  England,  o?  'Nursery  Stakes.'" 

Among  other  improvements  which  have  been  projected  on  our  Course, 
a  new  weighing  room  has  been  prepared,  and  since  the  last  meeting  of 
the  Club,  a  very  neatly  constructed  Chair,  by  order  of  the  Club,  lias  been 
imported  by  Mr.  John  Graveley,  58  East-Bay,  for  the  better  and  more 
convenient  weighing  of  the  Jockeys.  This  instruii;ent  has  been  long 
needed.  It  is  known  in  England  as  Salter's  Spring  Balance,  and  is 
made  to  weigh  with  exceeding  accuracy  any  weight  from  one  to  two 
hundred  and  fifty  pounds.  The  only  difference  between  the  chair  im- 
ported by  the  Club  and  those  in  general  use  in  England  is,  that  ours  is 
constructed  to  denote  the  weight  by  pounds,  instead  of  stones  and  pounds. 

It  is  a  very  handy  and  neat  affair.  It  will  remain  a  few  days  longer 
in  the  store  of  Mr.  Graveley,  where  all  who  may  feel  disposed  to  ex- 
amine it,  and  ascertain  their  tveiyht  and  standing  in  the  community,  may 
have  an  opportunity  of  doing  so,  before  it  is  removed  to  the  Jockey  Club 
Stand  on  the  Race  Course. 

The  Club  hitherto  has  been  accustomed  to  assemble  at  tlie  Carolina 
Hotel,  that  having  been  the  Headquarters  of  the  Club  for  many  years; 
but  some  change  has  been  found  necessary  this  season,  in  consequence  of 
the  recent  illness  of  its  worthy  proprietor.  A  change  has  been  made  at 
his  own  instance,  and  took  away  from  many  much  of  the  pleasure  of 
the  race  week.  Our  friend  ^4»..'7?(S,  of  the  illustrious  house  of  the  Stuarts, 
has  been  so  long  identified  with  the  meeting  and  doings  of  our  Club,  and 


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was  during  our  Races,  such  a  prominent  feature  in  Broad-street,  at  his 
own  hospitable  door,  like  Dennis  Bulgruddery,  in  the  Play  of  John  Bull, 
"  looking  out  for  customers,"  all  who  have  been  iuthe  habit  of  taking  an 
active  part  in  the  proceedings  of  the  week,  have  missed  him  very  much 
from  his  usual  post  among  us. 

1848. — Tuesday^  Feb.  22. — Sweepstakes  for  2   year  olds,  mile  heats, 

carrying  90  lbs.  ;  nominations  to  be  the  get  of  Santa  Anna. 

Mr.  Lowndes'  b.  c,  2  yrs.  old,  by  Santa  Anna,  dam  by  Little  Billy,         1         1 
W.  C.  Hey  ward's  ch.  c,  2  yrs.  old,  by  Santa  Anna,   out  of  Ida,  by 

imp.  Barefoot, 22 

Col.  Alston's  ch.  c,  by  Santa  Anna,  out  of  Aunt  Nina,  dead. 

Time, — 1st  heat,  1  ra.  58  sec;  2d  heat,  1  m.  5*7  sec. 

Wednesday,  Feb.  23. — Jockey  Club  Purse,  $1,000. — 4  mile  heats. 

W.  Sinkler's  ch.  h  ,  4  yrs.,  by  Shark,  out  of  Atalanta,       .         .        .     1      w  over. 
L.  Lovell's  b  h.  4  yrs.,   by  Monarch,   out  of  Mary   Frances,    by 

Director, 2 

M.  R.  Singleton's  ch.  c.  Marlbank,  3  yrs.,  by  Margrave,  out  of  Mul- 

tiflora,  by  Director, distanced. 

Time — 8  m.  1  sec. 

Same  day. — Hutchinson  Sweepstakes,  for  3  year  olds,  2  mile  heats, 
$250  entrance;  $50  if  declared  before  the  1st  November,  $100  after  that 
time.  If  three  or  more  start,  the  Club  to  add  $500,  Colts,  90  lbs. ; 
fillies,  87. 

N.  Green's  br.  c.  Free  Trade,  by  Jmp.  Mercer,  dam  by  Monmouth 

Eclipse, •.211 

R.  C.  Myers'  b.  f  by  Priam,  dam  by  Eclipse, 12     2 

W.  H.  Sinkler's  ch.  c.  by  Bertrand,  Jr.,  out  of  imp.  Marigold,         .      3    bro.  down. 

Wm.  J,  Ilarley's  b.  f.,  by  Sovereign,  out  of  Sally  Magrath,  paid 
forfeit. 

C.  &  R.  Green's  b.  c,  by  imp.  Mercer,  dam  by  American  Eclipse, 
paid  forfeit, 

O.  P.  Hare's  ch.  c.  by  Boston,  out  of  Rosalie  Somers,  paid  forfeit. 

R,  C.  Myers  gr.  c.  by  Leviathan,  dam  by  imp.  Rowton,  paid  forfeit. 

J.  C.  Singleton's  br.  f.  by  Priam,  out  of  Atalanta,  paid  forfeit. 

M,  R,  Singleton's  ch,  f,  by  imp,  Margeaux,  out  of  imp.  Queen,  paid 
forfeit. 

Wm.  Beauchamp's  b.  c.  by  Foreigner,  out  of  Josephine,  paid  forfeit, 

W.  W.  Barber's  br.  f.  by  Hornblower,  out  of  dam  of  Stanley  Eclipse, 
paid  forfeit. 

Time — 1st  heat,  3  m.  47|-  sec. ;  2d,  3  ra.  54  sec;   3d,  4  m,  3  sec, 

Thursday,  Feb.  24, — Jockey  Club  Purse,  $750. — 3  mile   heats,  con- 
ditions as  before, 
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0.  p.  Hare's  gr.  f.  Bostona,  4  yrs.jby  Boston,  out  of  Andrewetta,    .  1         1 
Wm.   Lowndes'    ch.  f.  Rosemary,  4  yrs.,  by  Eclipse,  out  of  Miss 

Cheat,  by  Sir  Charles, 2        2 

John  Harrison's  b.  m.  5  yrs.,  by  Sarpedon,  dam  by  Archy,      .        .  dist. 

Time — 1st  lieat,  5  m.  52  sec. ;  2d,  6  m.  6  sec. 

Same  day — Second  Race. — Hutchinson  Sweepstakes,  for  2  year  olds, 
mile  heats — $50,  if  declared  before  the  1st  November,  $100  after  that 
time. 

W.   C.  Heyward's  ch.    c.    by  Santa   Anna,    out  of  Ida,  by  imp. 

Barefoot 2      11 

M.  R-  Singleton's  ch.  c.  by  Monarch,  out  of  imp.  Fleet,  by  Augustus,     1      2     dr. 

D.  G.'s  gr.  f.,  by  Convention,  out  of  imp.  Gazelle,  paid  forfeit. 
Time — 1st  heat,  1  m.  47  sec;  2d  heat,  1  m.  59  sec;  3d  heat,  walked 
over. 

Fridai/,  Feb.  25. — Jockey  Club  Purse,  $500. — 2    mile  heats,   condi- 
tions as  before. 

W.  H.  Sinkler's  bl.  c.  Giraffe,  4  yrs.,  by  Argyle,  out  of  imp.  Gazelle,         1         1 
W.  M.  Myers'  br.  f  Countess,  4  yrs.,  by  Leviathan,  dam  by  Stock- 
holder,        ..........        2        2 

R.  C.  Myeis'  br.  f ,  3  yrs  ,  by  Priam,  dam  by  Leviathan,  ..43 

•      0.  P.  Hare's  ch.  f  Palmetto,  3  yrs  ,  by  Leviathan,  out  of  imp.  Anna 

Maria, 3        dis. 

Time — 1st  heat,  3  m.  57^  sec;  2d  heat,  3  m.  56  sec. 
Same  day — Hutchinson   Sweepstakes,  for  3  year  olds,  mile  heats — 
$250  entrance;  $50  if  declared  before  the  1st  November,  $100  after  that 
time. 

C.  &  N.  Green's  br.  c.  Free  Trade,  by  imp.  Mercer,  dam  by  Mon- 
mouth Eclipse,  walked  over. 

O.  P.  Hare's  ch.  f.  Palmetto,  paid  forfeit. 
R.  C.  Myers'  br.  f.  by  Priam,  paid  forfeit. 
J.  C.  Singleton's  b.  c.  by  Bertrand,  Jr.,  paid  forfeit. 
W.  Beauchamp's  b.  c,  by  Foreigner,  paid  forfeit. 
Saturday,  Feb.  26. — Handicap  Race. — 3  mile  heats. 
W.   Sinklci's  ch.  c.    Shark,   4  yra.,    by  Shark,  out  of  Atalanta, 

102  lbs. 12      1 

W.  M   Myers'  br.  f.  Countess,  4  yrs.,  by  imp.  Leviathan,  dam  by 

Stockholder,  90  lbs  , 3      12 

W.  Myers' gr.f  Bostona,  4  yrs  ,  by  Boston,  dam  Androwetta,  99  lbs.,     2      3     3 

Time — 1st  heat,  5  m.  57  sec. ;  2d  heat,  5  m.  59  sec. ;  3d  heat,  6  m. 
5  sec. 

First  heat. — Even  betting  on  Shark  against  the  field — they  jumpt 
off  with  a  beautiful  start,  close  on  each  other's  heels,  the  Countess  then 
led  oflf,  Shark  took  the  track,  however,  after  going  half  a  mile,  Bostoua 
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at  the  same  time  running  up,  and  placing  herself  second,  the  three  go- 
ing well  together  within  themselves,  until  the  last  mile,  when  Bostona 
made  her  effort  to  get  nearer  the  leading  horse.  Shark  was  not  to  be 
cauf/ht,  however,  and  ran  in,  several  lengths  ahead.  Countess  evidently 
did  not  run  for  this  heat.  Immediately  the  heat  terminated,  bets  were 
oifered  freely  on  Countess  against  the  field,  which  were  taken  up  on  all 
sides,  reailily,  by  the  friends  of  Shark  aud  Bostona.  The  backers  of 
Countess  built  their  hopes  upon  the  advantage  of  the  9  lbs.  taken  off 
her  by  the  handicappers,  and  the  chances,  that  possibly  Shark  might 
break  down,  as  it  was  reported  he  had  been  complaining  a  little  in  one 
of  his  pins.  We  scanned  him  veiy  closely,  but  confess  we  could  see  no 
cause  for  apprehension.  The  anxiety  of  the  crowd  now  began  to  in- 
crease every  moment,  and  on  looking  round  we  saw  men  excited  as  to 
the  issue,  that  we  never  knew  moved  before. 

Second  heat — Afforded  a  very  animated  contest.  As  may  have 
been  expected.  Countess  lost  no  time  in  opening  the  dance,  Shark  join- 
ing hands,  and  swinging  by  the  booths  with  a  spirit  and  alacrity  that 
indicated  they  had  probably  been  taking  lessons  in  the  polka,  or  gallop- 
ade,  Bostona  trailing  for  the  first  mile.  In  this  order  they  ran  until 
entering  the  back  stretch  in  the  2d  mile,  when  Shark  went  up  and 
changed  the  figure  a  little  by  locking  his  fair  partner.  After  a  desperate 
eftbrt  he  took  the  track  from  her,  which  she  again  recovered,  however, 
soon  after  passing  under  the  string  over  the  judge's  chair  in  the  2d 
mile.  Shark  now  ])rudently  drew  out  a  little  upon  the  harder  ground, 
and  perseveringly  struggled  home  for  the  heat ;  but  he  did  not  again 
reach  the*filly,  who  won  by  about  a  length.  As  soon  as  Bostona  dis- 
covered that  Shark  had  taken  the  track  from  Countess,  in  the  2d  mile, 
apprehending  it  was  all  over  but  shouting,  unless  she  could  turn  the 
fate  of  the  day,  put  on  additional  steam,  showing  some  of  the  fire  of  her 
gallant  sire,  with  something  like  locomotive  velocity  rushed  to  the  front 
couple  ;  they  all  then  kept  up  a  determined  struggle  to  the  pole,  Coun- 
tess coming  out  first,  as  we  have  already  stated,  hy  a  length  only^  vShark 
second,  and  Bostona  well  up  in  the  third  place.  The  manner  in  which 
Countess  had  won  this  heat,  and  having  cooled  oft"  well,  while  Bostona 
evidenced  no  imusual  symptoms  of  distress,  overcast  the  prospects  for 
the  final  success  of  the  Shark  colt.  His  owner,  however,  lost  no  con- 
fidence in  him,  remembering  no  doubt  that  even  the  muscles  of  the  ele- 
phant and  the  wings  of  the  fleetest  bird  will  sometimes  be  fatigued,  and 
that  although  Shark  may  have  been  outlasted  in  the  heat,  yet  such 
were  his  powers  of  endurance,  he  would  probably  recover  quicker  than 
either  of  his  competitors.     The  result  proves  he  was  right ;  but,  the 


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rivals  have  been  well  rubbed  and  groomed,  and   have  started  again  for 
the 

Third  heat. — Countess  led  off  as  before,  Bostona  second,  and  Shark 
a  little  in  the  rear,  but  close  upon  the  heels  of  the  Countess — Shark 
was  evidently  waiting  for  Bostona  to  show  her  hand  and  make  play, 
keeping  in  such  a  position,  that  if  she  failed  to  do  so  within  a  certain 
time,  to  be  able  to  win  the  race  in  a  brush  in  the  last  quarter.  Bostona 
not  drawing  nearer  the  Countess  than  when  they  first  started,  at  the 
gates,  about  a  half  a  mile  from  home,  Shark  was  seen  gathering  himself 
up  for  mischief,  "  to  do  or  die" — a  hard  struggle  ensued — tlie  three 
were  close  together — they  were  side  by  side,  neck  and  neck  :  it  was 
anybody's  race  ;  they  came  up  the  quarter  stretch  at  a  rattling  rate, 
with  a  speed  that  seemed  to  outstrip  the  wind.  The  struggle  was  be- 
coming more  and  more  exciting  every  jump.  The  Jockey  on  Shark 
pushing  his  faithful  horse  to  the  utmost,  kept  his  eyes  fixed  upon  his 
rivals,  as  if  intent  upon  measuring  their  powers,  that  he  might  the  bet- 
ter judge  when  he  should  make  his  final  efi'ort — neck  and  neck  still 
they  hung  upon  each  other — even  within  a  few  yards  of  the  finish, 
neither  had  the  advantage — up  to  the  last  stride  the  result  was  in  doubt 
— then  came  the  climax  of  anxious  excitement — with  great  skill  and 
coolness,  worthy  a  Nat,  a  Chifney  or  a  Robinson,  (the  crack  riders  of 
England,)  the  boy  on  Shark  lifted  his  horse  from  the  ground,  and 
landed  him  first  at  the  post  by  a  head  only  !  No  sooner  was  the  result 
proclaimed,  than  there  instantly  "  rose  from  earth  to  heaven  the  wild 
Hurra" — there  was  a  simultaneous  burst  of  enthusiasm,  we  never  heard 
equalled  upon  our  Course,  a  striking  contrast  to  the  breathless  anxiety 
that  pi'evailed  a  moment  before.  The  close  lines  of  people  on  either 
side  of  the  Course  suddenly  broke  up — the  roped  arena  was  thronged — 
crowds  following  and  cheering  the  winning  horse  as  he  returned  to  the 
scales,  imparting  a  new  liveliness  to  the  scene,  while  others  were  rush- 
ing about  in  delight,  and  brightened  countenances,  to  receive  the  bets 
they  had  won.  It  was  quite  delightful  to  see  even  the  losers  paying 
their  money  with  a  good  grace,  satisfied  to  pay  a  little  for  such  a  result. 
The  last  mile  in  the  third  heat  was  run  in  1  m.  57  sec,  and  we  must 
not  omit  to  mention,  in  justice  to  Bostona,  that  she  ran  this  heat  under 
great  disadvantages,  the  saddle  having  slipt  soon  after  she  started.  Our 
great  surprise  was,  that  the  rider  held  on  as  well  as  he  did,  for  he  fre- 
quently had  to  put  his  hands  down  her  neck,  to  keep  himself  upon  her 
back. 


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Same  day — Second  Mace. — Jockey  Club  Purse,  $200. — A  single  dash 
of  3  miles,  weight  for  age. 

0.  P.  Hare's  b.  m.  Miss  Coutts,  5  yrs.,  by  Boston,  dam  Kate  Kearney,     .        1 
W.  Lowndes'  cb.f.  Rosemary,  4  yrs.,   by  Eclipse,  out  of  iVIiss  Cheat, 

by  Sir  Charles, 2 

M.  R.  Singleton's  ch.  c.  Marlbank,  3  yrs.,  by  Margrave,  dam  by  Di- 
rector,  3 

Time — 5  m.  57|-  sec. 

Several  changes  with  regard  to  the  Course  and  its  appurtenances 
may  be  noticed  since  last  year.  The  Jockey  Club  Stand,  usually  occu- 
pied by  the  Judges  and  Timers  of  the  Races,  has  been  remodelled.  The 
heavy  pillars,  which  so  deformed  it,  and  were  so  injudicious  and  in  bad 
taste,  have  been  removed,  and  light  wrought  iron  posts  have  been  sub- 
stituted. The  building  consequently  has  assumed  a  nnich  more  light 
and  attractive  appearance,  and  a  clearer  view  from  it  of  course,  is  ob- 
tained of  the  Course. 

The  Grand  Stand,  which  has  been  so  generally  admired  for  its  neat 
appearance  and  the  accommodation  it  affords,  has  been  still  further 
improved  by  a  new  coat  of  paint,  and  a  new  set  of  Venetian  blinds. 
The  ladies,  therefore,  who  may  now  honor  the  Stand  by  their  presence, 
will  be  altogether  protected  from  wind  and  weather,  sun  and  glare — dis- 
comforts they  have  hitherto,  at  times,  been  subjected  to. 

The  weighing  of  the  Jockies  was  conducted  as  it  was  last  season,  in  a 
comfortable  room  in  the  basement  of  the  Grand  Stand,  regularly 
arranged  for  that  special  purpose.  The  patent  weighing  chair,  imported 
by  the  Club,  we  have  already  described.  It  was  used  again  during  this 
meeting.  It  was  found  to  work  remarkably  well,  and  greatly  to  facili- 
tate the  duties  of  the  stewards.  "We  cannot  too  earnestly  recommend 
these  machines  to  other  Clubs  throughout  the  country. 

We  must  not  omit  to  notice  the  importation  from  England,  by  the 
Club,  of  a  veiy  complete  Timepiece,  to  enable  the  Judges  to  time  the 
horses  with  the  greatest  possible  accuracy.  It  is  in  appearance  a  highly 
finished  clock,  made  by  Dent,  of  London ;  the  dial  plate  is  six  inches  in 
diameter,  the  hour  and  minute  hands  are  of  gold,  whilst  by  way  of  con- 
trast, the  more  easily  to  designate  them,  the  second  hand,  moving  in  a 
separate  circle,  is  of  steel.  It  is  an  eight  day  movement,  with  patent 
lever  escapement,  and  its  principle  value  to  the  Club  consists,  for  the 
purpose  for  which  it  is  intended,  in  having  a  large  stop  or  spring,  by 
which  its  action  may  be  stopped  every  second,  and  set  in  motion  again. 
It  is,  altogether,  a  very  valuable  article. 

We  confess,  we  have  been  much  struck  this  season  by  the  fact,  and 


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deem  it  of  liappy  augiiiy  to  tbe  future  interests  of  the  Club,  that  we 
have  so  many  young  men  of  the  good  old  Carolina  stock  making  their 
dehut  upon  the  turf.  "Who  has  not  read  with  pleasure  the  names  of  the 
two  young  Singletons,  Lowndes,  Sinkler,  Heyward  ?  young  men  of  for- 
tune and  of  h6nor,  who  will  doubtless  walk  in  the  footsteps  of  their 
fathers,  and  pursue  this  popular  pastime  of  racing,  not  merely  for  filthy 
lucre,  but  con  amove. 

The  Club  has  changed  the  time  of  holding  its  meetings.  Instead  of 
our  Races  taking  place,  as  heretofore,  at  the  end  of  the  month,  they  will 
commence,  in  future,  on  the  first  Wednesday/  in  February.  The  first 
day's  race  in  1849  will  therefore  be  on  the  Yth  of  February. 

ISi^.— Wednesday,  Feb.  1. — Jockey  Club  Purse,  $1,000. — 4  mile 
heats,  weight  for  age. 

0.  P.  Hare's  gr.  m.  Bostona,  5  yrs.,  by  Boston,  out  of  Andrewetta,        1         1 
Mr.  Sinklcr's  c.  h.  5  yrs.,  by  Shark,  out  of  Atalanta,         ...        2        2 

Time — 1st  heat,  1  m.  50  sec. ;  2d  heat,  7  ra.  57  sec. 

Second  Mace. — Hutchinson    Sweepstakes  for  3  year   olds. — 2   mile 

heats — $250   entrance,  $50  if  declared  before  the  1st  November,  $100 

after  that  time— the  Club  to  add  $500. 

Mr.  Stuart's  (Col.  Hampton's  nomination)  b.  f.  Millwood,  by  Mon- 
arch, out  of  Fanny, 11 

Mr.  James  Tally's  eh.  c    by  Boston,  dam  by  Tom  Tough,         ..22 

Mr,  Green's  b.  c.  by  Clarion,  dam  by  John  Richards,  paid  forfeit. 

Mr.  John  C.  Singleton's  gr.  f,  by  Convention,  out  of  imp.  Gazelle, 
paid  forfeit. 

Mr.  Stuart's  ch.  c.  by  Herald,  out  of  Maria  West,  paid  forfeit. 

Time — 1st  heat.  3  m.  48  sec;  2d  heat,  3  m.  47^  sec. 

Thursday,  Feb.  8. — Jockey  Club  Purse,  $750. — 3  mile  heats,  condi- 
tions as  before, 

Jno  Harrison's  cb.  m.  Rosa  Lee,  6  yrs.,  by  Boston,  out  of  imp.  Emily,  1        1 

W.  H.  Sinkler's  br.  g.,  3  yrs.,  by  Monarch,  dam,  imp'd,  by  Glaucus,  3        2 
John  C.  Singleton's  br.  m.  Countess,  5  yrs.,  by  Leviathan,  dam  by 

Stockholder 2        dis. 

J.  R.  Bullock's  ch.  m.  Comet,  5  yrs.,  by  Trustee,  dam  by  Eclipse,  .  dis. 

Time — 1st  heat,  5  m.  52  sec;  2d  heat,  5  m.  47  sec. 

Second  Race. — Hutchinson  Sweepstakes  for  2  year  olds,  mile  heats, 
— $250  entrance,  $50  if  declared  before  the  1st  November,  $100  after 
that  time  ;  if  two  or  more  start,  the  Club  to  add  $200. 

Mr.  Stuart's  (Col.  Hampton's  nomination)  br.  c,  by  imp.  Monarch, 
out  of  imp.  Emily,  walked  over. 

Mr.  Sinkler's  ch.  f.,  by  Phantom,  out  of  Great  Western,  paid  forfeit. 


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Mr.  Green's  ch.  f.  by  imp.  Mercer,  dam  by  John  Richards,  paid 
forfeit, 

Mr.  Green's  b.  c,  by  imp.  Mercer,  dam  by  Monmouth  Eclipse,  paid 
forfeit. 

Mr.  Tally's  b.  c,  by  Texas,  dam  by  Goliath,  paid  forfeit. 

Friday,  Feb.  9. — Jockey  Club  Purse,  $500. — 2  mile  heats,  conditions 
as  befoi'e. 

James  Tally's  b.  g.  Thirteen  of  Trumps,  3  yrs.,  by  Boston,  dam  by 

Priam, 1         1 

0.  P.  Hare's  b.  f,  3  yrs.,  by  Willis,  dam  bjTimoleon,     ...  2        2 

W.  H.  Sinkler'scb.  f.  Reciprocation,  2  yrs.  old,  by  Phantom,  out  of 

Great  Western, dis. 

J.  K.  Bullock's  ch.  f.,  2  yrs.  old,  by  Trustee,  dam  by  Andrew,  .        .  dis. 

Time — 1st  heat,  3  m.  49J  sec.  ;  2d  heat,  3  ra.  50^  sec. 

Same  day — Second  Race. — Hutchinson  Sweepstakes  for  3   year  olds, 

mile  heats — $250  entrance,  $50  if  declared  before  1st  November,  $100 

after  that  time;  if  two  or  more  start,  the  Club  to  add  $200. 

Mr.  Green's  b.  c,  by  Clarion,  dam  by  John  Richards,  ...  1  1 
Mr.  Stuart's  b.  f.  by  Monarch,  out  of  imp.  Emily,  ....  2  2 
J.  C.  Singleton's  br  g.  by  Hero,  out  of  imp.  Helen,         ...         3        dis. 

Time — 1st  heat,  1  m.  50  sec;  2d  heat,  1  ra,  52^  sec.     Add  forfeits. 
Saturday,  Feb.  10. — Handicap  Race,  Purse  $600. — 3  mile  heats. 

J.  R.  Harrison's  ch.  m.  Rosa  Lee,  6  yrs.  old,  by  Boston,  out  of  imp. 

Emily,    117  lbs., 11 

0.  P.  Hare's  gr.  m   Bostona,  5  yrs.  old,  by  Boston,  out  of  Andrew- 

etta,  1U9  lbs., 2        2 

W.  H.  Sinkler's  ch.  h.  Shark,  out  of  Atalanta,  106  lbs.,  ...        3        3 

Time — 1st  heat,  5  ra.  51  sec. ;  2d  heat,  5  m.  48  sec. 

Same  day — Second  Race. — A  single  heat  of  3  miles. — Jockey  Club 

Purse,  $200,  weight  for  age. 

0.  P.  Hare's  b.  f  3  yrs  ,  by  Willis,  out  of  Mary  Lea,  ....  1 
W.  H  Skinner's  br.  g  ,  3  yrs.,  by  Monarch;  dam  imp'd,  by  Glaucus,  .  2 
James  Tally's  ch.  c.  Tally-Ho,  3  yrs.,  by  Boston,  dam  by  Tom  Tough,    .         3 

Time — 5  m.  49  sec. 

This  was  one  of  those  Races  we  like  to  see,  and  take  much  delight  in 
reporting — it  was  certainly  a  aiagnificent  Race,  every  inch  closely  con- 
tested— and  we  venture  to  say,  no  one  could  have  seen  it  without  feeling 
an  interest  in  it.  The  uncertainty,  the  vicissitudes,  the  changes  that 
marked  it  from  the  first  jump,  up  to  the  throbbing  anxiety  of  the  final 
struggle,  created  a  concentration  of  interest  that  could  not  fail  to  awaken 
a  pleasurable  excitement,  even  in  the  coldest  bosom.  We  cannot  think 
of  passing  over  such  an  event  without  as  particular  a  notice  of  it  as  our 
leisure  will  permit,  and  our  fancy  prompt. 


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The  Jockies  mounted,  and  took  their  places.  The  word  was  given. 
The  horses,  as  if  endued  with  intelligence,  and  an  instinctive  desire  for 
fair  play,  dashed  forward  a.t  the  very  same  instant.  It  was  a  beautiful 
and  exciting  sight  to  see  those  fleet  and  impetuous  horses,  giving  them- 
selves up  to  the  excitement  of  the  occasion  with  a  sort  of  personal  relish, 
carried  away  by  their  own  ardor.  Roused  of  their  own  free  will  and 
accord,  into  a  wild  and  intoxicating  gallop,  as  if  they  were  really  of 
themselves  taking  all  the  pleasure  in  the  race,  they  were  affording  to 
the  spectators.  Like  roses  on  the  same  stem  shaking  in  the  wind,  they 
hung  together  with  unabating  energy,  and  at  a  rattling  pace.  One, 
moving  with  a  strong  and  steady  stride,  whilst  the  other  two,  light  and 
agile  as  fawns,  bounded  along  without  an  apparent  effort.  It  was  im- 
possible to  predict  what  the  result  would  be.  As  they  passed  under  the 
string  and  commenced  the  last  mile,  their  riders  leaned  a  little  forward, 
and  gathered  up  their  reins  with  a  closer  and  stronger  grasp — not  to 
check  the  speed  of  their  coursers,  but  evidently  to  obtain  additional 
power  to  brace  and  steady  the  good  animals  they  strode,  knowing  the 
great  struggle  was  soon  to  coaie,  and  that  they  would  have  to  hurry 
them  on  still  faster  and  faster  if  possible,  by  the  aid  of  whip  and  spur  1 
All  three  Jockies  seemed  now,  by  a  simultaneous  impulse,  to  bury  their 
spurs  at  the  same  moment  in  their  horses  flanks.  Thus  goaded,  the 
excited  animals  darted  forward  with  a  more  furious  speed — a  magnifi- 
cent struggle  commenced — they  flew  along  the  back  stretch,  like  swal- 
lows on  the  wing,  past  the  gates ;  then,  in  as  little  time  as  it  takes  us  to 
indite  it,  rushed  round  into  the  straight  run  home,  like  arrows,  shot 

"  From  some  hunter's  strong,  unerring  bow," 

flying  so  straight,  and  true  to  the  mark,  and  with  such  velocity,  as  to  be 
almost  in  their  rapid  flight,  for  a  time  as  uudistinguishable  in  form  and 
color,  as  the  viewless  spirits  of  the  air  through  which  they  were  passing, 
and  with  which,  it  took  no  great  sti'ctch  of  a  poet's  fancy  to  imagine, 
they  were  joyfully  gambolling.  A  deep  and  strange  silence  brooded 
over  the  crowd.  Every  eye  was  intently  fixed  upon  the  competitors,  as 
with  flanks  soioking,  eyes  dilated,  nostrils  heaving,  with  sinews  of  steel 
they  reached  the  winning  chair.  Anxiety  seemed  to  have  deprived  the 
spectators  of  their  breath,  until  the  goal  was  past,  and  the  victory  won. 
Then  a  long  shout,  or  rather  a  loud  murmur  of  admiration,  escaped  from 
the  lips  of  all  those,  whose  hearts,  a  moment  before,  were  too  full  for 
words ;  and  who,  even  then,  when  the  race  was  over,  from  witnessing 
the  changes  and  doubtful  vicissitudes  of  this  truly  beautiful  contest,  were 
a  little  bewildered,  beside  themselves  with  delight — a  sort  of  cloud  hover- 


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ing,  as  it  were,  before  their  mental  vision,  rendering  them  uncertain,  for 
a  time,  whether  the  animated  scene  around  them,  the  exciting  race,  the 
moving  figures,  had  been  real  all,  or  only  one  of  those  pictured  illusions 
in  some  wonderful  phantasmagoria,  which  are  seen,  sometimes  conjured 
up  by  necromantic  art,  neither  a  reality  nor  yet  a  dream ! 

This  race  was  a  magnificent  wind  up,  indeed,  to  the  sports  of  the 
week,  and  proves  the  good  judgment  of  the  Club  in  terminating  our 
Races  with  a  description  of  race  that  must  always  insure,  when  the 
horses  are  at  all  equal,  excellent  sport.  Being  but  a  single  heat,  there 
can  be  no  waiting  for  chances,  but  every  one  must  make  play  ab  initio, 
if  he  wishes  to  console  himself  at  the  finish  with  the  agreeable  re- 
flection, that  Finis  coronat  opus. 

Our  Races  have  taken  place  about  a  fortnight  earlier  than  usual  of 
late  years,  the  time  of  holding  our  meeting  having  been  changed  from 
the  last  to  the  Jirst  week  in  February.  We  hope  this  change  will 
eventuate  well,  but  we  confess  we  have  our  misgivings  as  to  its  policy. 
In  our  recollection,  once  before  has  this  been  attempted.  It  was  fairly 
tried,  and  failed ;  the  members  of  the  Club,  "  for  good  and  sufficient 
reasons,  thereunto  them  moving,"  soon  changing  back  again,  the  expe- 
rience of  a  few  seasons  proving  that  it  would  not  answer.  From  the 
reorganization  of  the  Club  in  1*786,  our  Races  have  been  held  towards 
the  end  of  February,  with  the  exception  of  a  few  years,  when,  owin^  to 
unavoidable  circumstances,  they  took  place  a  little  earlier.  In  1818, 
an  eftbrt  was  made  to  alter  the  rule  so  as  to  fix  the  Races  permanently 
for  the  first  week  in  February ;  by  a  very  unanimous  vote  it  was  re- 
solved, that  the  annual  Races  should  in  future  be  run  on  the  first  Wed- 
nesday, and  two  following  days  in  February.  This  arrangement  con- 
tinued in  force  until  the  year  1822,  when,  by  an  equally  decided  vote, 
the  time  was  extended  to  the  first  Wednesday  after  the  second  Monday/ 
in  the  month.  This  was  gaining  a  little,  but  it  seems  not  all  that  the 
majority  thought  likely  to  be  conducive  most  to  the  interest  of  the  Club 
and  best  accommodate  its  meeting  to  those  of  other  Clubs  in  this  State 
and  Georgia,  for  at  the  very  next  meeting,  1823,  an  overwhelming  vote 
fixed  the  Races  for  the  last  Wednesday  in  February  !  and  this,  ever 
since,  has  been  the  date  of  our  Races  up  to  the  present  season. 

We  have  said  we  hope  the  change  will  eventuate  well.  The  only 
fear  we  have  is  on  account  of  weather — though  the  month  of  January, 
and  as  far  as  we  have  got  into  February,  has  been  uncommonly  fine 
this  season — more  like  spring  than  midwinter  ;  nevertheless  the  weather 
at  the  beginning  of  this  month  is  generally  inclement,  consequently  un- 
favorable to  racing. 


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Witli  the  exception  of  the  change  above  mentioned,  nothing  of  gene- 
ral interest  has  occurred  since  the  last  meeting.  The  Sweepstakes  were 
opened,  but  did  not  fill  as  well  as  in  former  seasons.  We  think  this 
may  be  accounted  for  by  the  limited  time  allowed  for  nominating.  The 
1st  of  August  is  quite  early  enough,  instead  of  the  1st  of  May,  and 
would  always  insure  a  larger  field  ;  that  is,  if  there  are  any  young  things 
coming  forward  at  all,  throughout  the  country.  SuflScient  time,  at  all 
events,  would  then  be  afforded  for  a  trial  of  the  two  and  three  year 
olds,  that  would  be  likely  to  be  named,  and  their  owners  would  with 
greater  confidence  engage  them  in  the  stakes,  the  Club  so  liberally 
opens  to  public  competition. 

We  remember  the  very  first  year  these  stakes  were  instituted,  the 
time  for  closing  was  fixed  for  the  1st  of  May,  but  that  period  transpired, 
and  not  a  single  name  was  sent  to  the  Secretary.  A  meeting  of  the 
stewards  was  consequently  held,  and  the  time  extended  to  the  1st  of 
August,  by  which  a  large  entry  was  secured,  and  a  fine  field  of  colts 
and  fillies  came  to  the  post — it  was  Revenue's  year,  when,  it  will  be 
recollected  by  all  our  Turfmen,  he  beat,  after  a  severe  race,  the  cele- 
brated Shark,  and  several  others.  It  will  behove  the  stewards,  and  we, 
therefore,  respectfully  suggest  to  them,  to  look  to  this  matter  another 
season. 

We  regret  to  state  that  the  gentleman,  who  was  the  first  to  propose 
the  establishment  of  this  Stake,  as  an  annual  Race  over  the  Washington 
Course,  has,  since  our  last  meeting,  paid  the  debt  of  nature,  and  gone  to 
his  long  home !  He  expired  in  New  York  last  summer,  after  the  illness 
of  only  a  few  hours. 

"He  was  borne  to  the  earth  by  the  friends  that  he  died  with,"  the 
event  causing  a  great  sensation  at  the  time,  not  only  among  those  upon 
whom  devolved  the  last  sad  offices  of  aftection,  but  also  among  the 
many  friends  he  left  behind  at  home — the  companions  of  his  youth. 

The  South  Carolina  Jockey  Club  has  reason  to  lament  his  end,  for 
he  was  a  zealous  and  efficient  member,  exceedingly  popular  in  the  circle 
in  which  he  moved,  characterized  by  fine  social  qualities  ;  a  cheerful, 
amiable  temper,  and  a  ready  disposition  to  oblige  every  one  about  him. 
There  is  no  one,  we  are  sure,  who  knew  him  but  will  often  think  of  him 
and  miss  him  very  much  ;  there  is  no  one,  who  has  been  accus- 
tomed, as  we  have  been,  to  see  him  and  hail  him,  as  a  kindred  spirit  for 
many  years,  during  every  returning  Race  week,  but  will  regret  that  our 
places  of  meeting  will  ne'er  again  resound  with,  nor  our  convivial  re' 
unions  be  again  animated  by,  his  welcome  voice  ! 

*'  Poor  Tom's  a-cold  1"     Alas,  it  is  too  true  !     But  the  hearts  that  beat 


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kindly  towards  him  in  life,»  still  beat  towards  liim  as  warmly  as  of 
yore  ! 

It  is  in  behalf,  therefore,  of  our  many  associates  of  the  Turf,  who? 
with  us,  liked  him  living,  and  are  disposed  to  honor  him  now  that  he  is 
dead,  that  we  record,  in  token  of  respect  for  his  memory,  this  sincere 
though  feeble  testimonial  of  esteem  and  friendship. 

Making  the  proper  allowance  for  this  drawback,  upon  the  whole  the 
season  of  1849  has  given  infinitely  more  pleasure  than  was  anticipated 
by  the  most  sanguine. 

The  show  of  private  carriages,  cf  the  holyday  or  Corinthian  order,  as 
in  other  and  better  times,  was  cheering,  giving  consequence  and  eclat  to 
the  assemblage — these,  on  arriving  at  the  Grand  Stand,  dischai'ged  their 
fair  freight,  with  order  and  regularity,  wheeling  round  to  the  space 
allotted  to  them,  and  thus  giving  way  to  others  as  they  drove  up.  The 
advantage  of  separate  entrances  to  the  Course  was  very  apparent  this 
year;  whilst 

"  Those  who  drive  at  random, 
Whisky,  buggy,  gig  or  dog  cart,  curricle  or  tandem," 

bad  a  gate  appropriated  to  their  special  accommodation,  and  the  pedes- 
trians another,  the  members  of  the  Club  using,  of  course,  their  pri- 
vate gate,  all  confusion  was  avoided  both  in  entering  and  departing  from 
the  Course. 

As  the  hour  approached  for  starting  the  horses,  the  inclosure  about 
the  stand  was,  day  after  day,  well  filled  by  the  members  and  their 
invited  guests,  whilst  the  Grand  Stand,  its  portico  and  saloon,  presented 
a  beautiful  appearance.  The  weather  being  fine  throughout  the  week, 
mimbers  of  the  softer  sex  brightened  the  scene  with  their  presence, 
identifying  themselves  with  the  noble  diversion,  in  which  either  their 
husbands,  brothers,  or  lovers  seemed  to  take  so  much  interest,  and  ap- 
pear to  such  advantage,  not  only  from  the  agreeable  enjoyment  the 
sport  itself  furnishes,  but  the  charm  and  refinement  the  presence  of 
ladies  manifestly  occasions — proof  of  the  wisdom  and  truth  of  the  pre- 
vailing sentiment,  that  no  pursuit  can  be  successful,  or  happiness  in  this 
world  perfect,  unless  we  secure  for  it  the  approving  smiles  of  luoman  ! 
It  cannot  be  denied  that  they  do  lend  enchantment  to  every  scene  ! 

We  were  often  reminded  during  the  week,  from  the  enthusiasm  that 
prevailed  from  time  to  tiine,  of  the  good  old  days  of  the  Charleston 
Turf,  and  we  were  frequently  tempted,  when  we  heard  the  people  shout, 
to  call  to  them,  like  Damon,  "to  shout  again  and  again  !" 

No  one  who  attended  our  meeting  but  must  have  been  gratified  by 


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the  quality  of  the  sport — not  a  slow  heat  having  been  run^  and  we  have 
had  the  fastest  second  heat  ever  run  on  our  present  track. 

Socially,  also,  it  has  been  a  charming  meeting,  not  characterized  by 
boisterous  merriment,  but  refined,  elegant  enjoyment,  with  which  the 
heart  and  good  breeding  have  had  much  to  do.  So  signally  successful 
has  it  been,  attended  by  such  unanimity  of  sentiment  throughout  on 
various  subjects  of  future  interest  lo  the  Club,  that  we  believe  a  new 
vitality  has  been  imparted,  and  the  perpetuity  of  Racing  in  Charleston 
insured,  under  even  improving  auspices  ;  stimulating,  as  it  ha&  done, 
our  youth  to  join  the  Club  in  larger  numbers  than  usual,  and  encourag- 
ing the  old  habitues  of  the  Course,  by  still  remaining  members  "  stead- 
fast in  the  good  faith,"  to  continue  to  the  Club  the  benefit  of  their  expe- 
rience and  worth. 

At  the  final  meeting  of  the  Club  on  Saturday,  Sweepstakes  for  the 
next  year  were  opened,  with  the  same  conditions  as  those  of  the  present 
meeting,  and  a  resolution  was  passed  to  designate  them  as  the  "  Hut- 
chinson Stakes^''  in  honor  of  the  memory  of  the  gentleman  who  origi- 
nated them.  At  the  annual  election  for  officers  no  change  was  made,  a 
pleasing  indication  of  the  harmony  that  prevails  in  the  Club. 

1850. —  Wednesday,  Feb.  6. — Jockey  Club  Purse,  $1,000. — For  all 
ao'es,  weight  for  age. — 4  mile  heats. 

M.  R-  Singleton's  br.  g.  Minor,  by  imp.  Monarch,  dam  by  Glaucus, 

4  yrs., -....11 

Wade  Hampton's  b.  f.  Millwood,  by  imp.  Monarch,  out  of  Fanny,  4 

yrs., 2        2 

R.  C.  Richardson's  ch.  c.  Highland  Johnny,  by  Bertrand,  Jr.,  dam  by 

Mucklejohn,  3  yrs., dis. 

Time — V  m.  57  sec;  7  m.  59  sec. 

A  very  interesting  feature  in  this  Race  was  the  meeting  again,  on  our 
Turf  in  honest,  friendly  rivalry,  three  such  time-honored  names  as  Hamp- 
ton Sino-leton,  and  Richardson.  The  latter  gentleman,  a  son  of  one  of 
our  early  friends.  Col.  James  B.  Richardson,  we  are  most  happy  to  see  on 
our  Turf.  He  has  made  his  debut  this  year,  with  a  stable  of  horses,  all 
the  get  of  Bertrand,  Jr.  We  sincerely  welcome  him  to  the  place  of  his 
father  and  trust,  after  a  few  years  experience,  as  a  recompense  to  himself 
and  as  promotive  of  our  sports  over  the  Washington  Course,  and  as 
tending  to  advance  the  ends  and  objects  of  our  Club, — the  improvement 
of  our  breed  of  horses, — he  will  help  to  revive  the  good  old  days  when 
his  kind-hearted,  amiable  father  had  the  pride  and  glory  of  entering  and 
winning  with  such  horses  as  Transport,  Bertrand,  Jr.,  Little  Venus,  and 
Julia. 


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Same  day. — Hutchinson  Sweepstaks,  for  3  year  olds. — Colts  90  lbs., 
fillies  87  lbs.  Sub.  $250  each;  1^100  forfeit;  $50  if  declared  before  the 
1st  November.  If  two  or  more  start  the  Club  to  add  $500.  Closed  on 
1st  May.     2  mile  heats. 

N.  Green's  b.c.  Stockton,  by  imp.  Mercer,  own  brother  to  Free  Trade,         1         1 
M.  R.  Singleton's  ch.  c.  Guardian,  by  imp.   Trustee,  dam  by  imp. 

Rowton, .22 

John  Harrison's  ch  f.  by  imp.  Trustee,  out  of  American  Maid,       .        3         3 

O.  P.  Hare's  ch.  c.  by  Boston,  out  of  Canary,  paid  forfeit. 
James  Talley's  b.  f.  by  Orator,  out  of  Sarah  Washington,  paid  forfeit. 
M.  R.  Singleton's  b.  c.  by  Hero,  out  of  imp.  Fleet,  paid  forfeit. 
C.  &  N.  Green's  ch.  c.  by  imp.  Trustee,  dam  by  Mucklejohn,  paid  forfeit. 
Time — 3  m.  49  sec;  3  m.  47  sec. 

Thursday,  Feb.  7. — Jockey  Club  Purse,  $750. — For  all  ages,  weights 
as  before. — 3  mile  heats. 

N.  Green's  b.  h.  Free  Trade,  5  yrs.,  by  imp.  Mercer,  dam  by  Mon- 
mouth Eclipse,    .........  1         1 

Wade  Hampton's  b.  c.  Lithgow,  3  yrs.  old,  own  brother  to  Millwood,  3        2 

John  Harrison's  ch.  m.  Rosa  Lee,  aged,  by  Boston,  out  of  imp.  Emily,  2        dis. 

R.  C.  Richardson's  ch.  c   Paragon,  3  yrs.,  by  Bertrand,  Jr.,  out  of 

Zoe, dis. 

Time — 5  m.  45  sec;  2d  heat,  5  m.  44  sec. 

Same  day — Second  Race. — Jockey  Club  Purse,  $150. — For  all  ages, 

weights  as  before. — 2  mile  heats. 

John  Harrison's  ch.  c.  by  imp.  Monarch,  out  of  Lucy  Abbott,  4  yrs.,         1         1 
R.C.  Richardson's  b.  g.  Hop-Lightly,  aged,  by  Bertrand,  Jr.,  .        2        2 

Time — 3  m.  56-^  sec;  2d  heat,  3  m.  55  sec. 

Friday,  Feb.  8. — Jockey  Club  Purse,  $500. — For  all  ages,  weights  as 

before. — 2  mile  heats. 

N.  Green's  b.  h.  Gen.  Cass,  4  yrs.,  by  Clarion,  out  of  the  dam  of 

Hornblower, .11 

R.  C.  Myers'  ch.  f.  Jane  Bullock,  3  yrs.,  by  imp.  Trustee,  dam  by 

Andrew, 3        2 

M.  R.  Singleton's  ch.  g.  Lot,  3  yrs.,  by  Hero,  dam  by  Sir  Archy,      .        2        3 

Time — 3  m.  45  sec. ;  2d  heat,  3  m.  47  sec. 

Same  day — Second  Race. — Hutchinson  Sweepstakes. — For  3  year 
olds. — Colts  90  lbs.,  fillies  87  lbs.  Subscription  $250  ;  $100  forfeit  if 
declared  before  the  1st  November.  Closed  the  1st  May.  If  two  or 
more  start  the  Club  to  add  $200. — Mile  heats. 

N.  Green's  ch.  c.  by  imp.  Trustee,  dam   by  Mucklejohn,  walked  over. 

M.  R.  Singleton's  ch.  c  Guardian,  pedigree  above,  paid  forfeit. 

Saturday,  Feb.  9. — Handicap  Race. — Purse  $600. — For  all  ages. — 3 
mile  heats. 


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110 

M.  K.  Singleton's  br.  g.  Minor,  pedigree  above,  4  yrs.,  99  lbs.. 
Wade  Hampton's  b.  f.  Millwood,  pedigree  above,  4  yrs.,  94  lbs., 
John  Harrison's  ch.  m.  Rosa  Lee,  pedigree  above,  aged,  113  lbs 
N.Green's  b.  c  Stockton,  pedigree  above,  3  yrs.,  90  lbs  , 

Time — 5  m.  53  sec;  5  m.  54^-;  5  ra.  5*7  sec. 

First  heat. — All  being  in  motion,  the  signal  was  given  to  be  off,  when 
Stockton  reared  and  hung  back,  by  which  he  lost  several  lengths.  Rosa 
Lee  took  up  the  running,  Minor  and  Millwood  evidently  not  going  for 
the  heat,  but  well  up,  Stockton  trailing.  In  this  order  they  ran  for  two 
miles  and  a  half,  when  Stockton  coming  up  with  a  rush,  locked  Millwood, 
putting  her  so  much  upon  her  mettle,  that  the  boy  could  hardly  restrain 
her ;  he  took  a  pull  upon  her,  however,  and  drew  her  back  to  her  place- 
Meanwhile  Minor  was  so  close  up  with  Rosa  Lee,  that  many  wondered  he 
did  not  make  an  eflbrt  for  the  heat ;  but  this  seemed  not  to  be  the  policy 
of  his  owner,  so  after  driving  the  mare  up  to  5.53,  he  resigned  the  con- 
test, after  passing  the  distance  stand,  and  quietly  cantered  in,  Rosa  Lee 
winning  the  heat. 

Second  heat. — Rosa  Lee  took  the  lead,  but  Minor  immediately  went 
up  to  her,  and  after  a  magnificent  brush  at  the  end  of  the  first  mile,  took 
the  track.  Millwood,  as  in  the  first  heat,  dropt  into  the  third  place,  with 
Stockton  also  in  waiting,  until  the  last  mile,  when  Rosa  Lee,  Stockton, 
and  Mihvood  simultaneously  forced  the  running,  and  got  into  some  se- 
vere work.  Minor,  however,  kept  in  front,  and  won  the  heat,  after  a 
very  exciting  race.     Stockton  Avas  then  withdrawn. 

This  was  a  very  beautiful  heat — in  one  portion  of  it  the  contending 
nags  were  all  together  for  a  mile  or  so — Millwood  was  whisking  her  tail, 
a  peculiarity  she  has  in  running;  Stockton  was  trying,  with  his  long 
lurching  strides,  to  creep  between  her  and  the  rails;  Rosa  Lee  was  mov- 
ing along  with  a  grace  and  speed  worthy  of  her  four  year  old  form ;  and 
Minor  was  so  mixed  up  with  them,  that  from  the  distance  they  were 
from  us  on  the  other  side  of  the  Course,  it  was  impossible  to  say  what  po- 
sition he  exactly  occupied ;  they  were  head  and  head,  they  were  stroke 
and  stroke ;  they  went  along  fast  as  Ihe  clouds  hurrying  above  them; 
the  blast  of  the  tempest  seemed  to  fly  after  them  in  vain.  It  began  to 
rain  heavily,  yet,  with  lusty  sinews,  undauntedly  they  breasted  the 
weather  and  they  braved  the  storm.  As  they  rushed  through  the  de- 
scending waters,  skimming  the  surface  of  the  Course,  and  dashing  about 
them  the  spray  as  they  passed,  they  reminded  us  of  a  flock  of  the  stormy 
petrel  on  the  wing,  to  whom  all  weathers  are  alike,  but  who  delight 
most  in  the  rain  and  in  the  tempest.  The  excitement  was  immense 
■when  Minor  showed  full  in  front  of  the  flying  four,  and  swinging  round 
the  turn  into  the  straight  run  home,  looked  very  much  like  a  winner. 


Ill 

Third  heat. — The  word  is  given,  and  in  an  instant  the  three  have 
dashed  off  again  within  a  few  feet  of  each  otlier.  Minor  is  in  the  lead, 
but  the  others  are  close  upon  him  in  pursuit.  No  change  of  position 
took  place  until  the  end  of  the  first  round,  when  Rosa  Lee  came  up  with 
Millwood  to  Minor's  side,  and  they  passed  the  stand  in  a  rank  of  three. 
During  the  second  mile  Minor  drew  out  again  a  little  in  advan(;e,  but  the 
field  is  not  to  be  shaken  off;  the  nearest  head  now  touches  his  loins,  and 
the  whole  are  urged  to  still  greater  speed;  Rosa  Lee  and  Millwood  are 
drawing  up  closer  and  closer;  they  are  gaining  little  by  little;  inch  by 
inch  they  creep  up ;  on  reaching  the  last  half  mile  they  are  all  together 
in  a  cluster;  no  jostling  and  running  against  eaidi  other,  so  as  to  retard 
each  other's  flight,  but  each  keeping  his  own  line,  and  moving  with  an 
even,  steady  stride.  Now  come  the  moments  of  anxious  excitement; 
among  the  spectators  the  interest  thickens;  Minor  finding  himself  so 
nearly  overtaken,  exerts  himself  to  his  utmost  ability  to  maintain  his  ad- 
vantage : 

"  Vires  acquirit  eundo  ;  " 

his  former  rate  of  speed,  gi-eat  as  it  was,  seems  almost  in  a  moment  to 
be  doubled  ;  catgut  and  steel  are  busily  at  work;  on,  on  they  fly;  hope 
lends  wings  to  each ;  they  rush  through  the  blach  masses  that  gather 
around  them  in  the  middle  of  the  course,  in  the  last  quarter  stretch, 
hiding  them  from  sight,  then  emerging  with  rapid  pace  again  into  full 
view,  the  throng  through  which  they  had  passed  closing  upon  them  and 
effacing  every  trace  of  their  passage,  as  the  waves  do  that  of  a  ship ;  a 
drowsy  murmur  is  now  heard,  like  a  soft,  steady  breeze,  threading  its  way 
through  the  tops  of  lofty  pine  trees;  a  buzzing  sound,  distinct  and  tune- 
ful, like  the  distant  fall  of  water,  or  like  the  humming  of  the  Hybla 
bees,  poised  in  air,  making  gentle  music  with  their  busy  wings;  as  yet 
there  is  no  irrecoverable  advantage  on  the  side  of  either;  they  are  ap- 
proaching the  distance  post,  all  striving  to  their  uttermost ;  but  vain  the 
effort  now,  of  Millwood  or  of  Rosa  Lee,  Minor  has  sprung  nobly  forward, 
with  a  quickened  flight,  like  a  falcon  darting  on  his  prey,  and  passed 
the  chair  a  gallant  winner  by  several  lengths;  the  colors  of  Singleton, 
like  a  banner  of  victory,  fluttering  in  the  breeze. 

On  returning  to  scale,  cheers  upon  cheers  made  the  welkin  ring,  in 
honor  of  the  winner,  by  the  quickly  gathering  crowd. 

Thus  did  this  remarkable  little  horse  win  for  his  popular  owner  a  se- 
cond gallant  contest  during  the  week;  he  is  certainly  a  wonderful  little 
horse,  with  form  and  action  denoting  strength  and  grace;  light  and  elas- 
tic in  his  tread,  like  Iphlclus,  who  was  said  to  have  been  so  light  of  foot 


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that  lie  could  run  over  a  field  of  standing  corn,  and  the  tenderest  stalks 
and  ears  would  not  bend  under  his  motion. 

"  Nam  super  extremas  segetum  currebat  aristas, 
Nee  siccos  fructus  Isedebat  pondere  plantee." 

We  have  made  some  allusion  to  the  peculiarity  of  Millwood  in  switch- 
ing her  tail  when  running.  Horses  do  not  frequently  flourish  their  tails 
when  going  at  speed,  and  it  is  generally  deemed  a  bad  sign  when  their 
flags  are  thus  waving  in  the  wind,  but  with  Millwood  it  is  no  evidence  of 
distress;  it  is  a  very  common  habit  with  her,  when  she  is  leading,  "to 
hang  out  her  banner,"  as  it  were,  "  on  the  outward  wall,"  in  this  defying 
manner,  and  to  wave  it  in  the  wind. 

Same  day. — Purse  $300. — Post  Entrance. — For  all  ages,  weights  for 
age. — 3  miles. 

Wade  Hampton's  b.  c.  Lithgow,  pedigree  above,       ....  1 

N.  Green's  ch.  c.  by  imp.  Trustee,  3  yrs., 2 

Time — 5  m.  58  sec. 

This  was  another  very  well  contested  race,  like  the  last,  and  created  a 
deep  interest  from  the  start  to  the  finish.  The  result  was  highly  gratify- 
ing to  those  who  go  in  for  the  Monarch  stock,  both  races  this  day  having 
been  won  by  the  get  of  that  stallion,  and  the  second  horse  in  the  first 
race,  besides  the  winner  of  the  second  race  on  Thursday  being  Monarchs. 
Lithgow,  the  winner  of  this  purse,  is  a  strong  and  fine  moving  colt.  We 
think  he  is,  and  believe  that  Col.  Hampton  also  thinks  so,  that  he  is  the 
best  race  horse  he  has  bred  for  many  years ;  he  is  certainly  "  very  sweet 
upon  him;"  but  Hampton,  as  long  as  we  have  known  him,  has  always 
had  some  favorite  that  he  was  willing  "  to  swear  by."  As  well  could  the 
Knight  of  old  have  doubted  his  falchion  bright,  or  the  Corsair  of  the  Isles 
his  carbine  lock,  when  free  from  rust,  would  not  spring  worthy  of  its 
trust,  as  Hampton  the  speed  and  bottom  of  his  good  steed,  when  in  good 
condition.  In  this,  however,  the  Colonel  only  shows  a  spirit  akin  to 
many  that  have  gone  before  him.  In  all  ages,  and  through  all  times, 
there  has  always  been  some  one  character  remarkable  "  for  delighting  in 
his  horse." 

Achilles  had  his  Xanthus  ;  Hector  his  Galathe ;  Troilus  also  possessed 
a  fine  steed,  which  Diomed  led  away,  as  a  trophy,  after  he  had 

"Chastised  the  amorous  Trojan," 

and  presented  it  to  Cressida,  the  lady  of  his  love.     This  horse  must  have 
been  highly  prized  by  Troilus,  for  he  subsequently  gave  a  challenge  to 


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Diomed,  which  led  to  a  second  encounter,  sending  forth  on  the  wind 
these  menacing  words,  in  a  loud  voice : 

"O.  traitor  Diomed,  turn  thy  false  face,  thou  traitor, 
And  pay  thy  life,  thou  owest  me  for  my  horse.^' 

Mahomet  had  his  Alborac  ;  Alexander  his  Bucephalus;  Bellerophon  his 
Pegasus ;  the  second  Richard  of  England  had  his  "  roan  Barbary," 
which  he  so  often  patted  with  his  royal  hand  that  Shakspeare  made  him 
say : 

"That  jade  hath  eat  bread  from  my  royal  hand; 
This  hand  hath  made  him  proud  with  clapping  him." 

The  third  Richard  had  his  "  white  Surry ; "  Jacques  de  Helly  his  Tad- 
mor  ;  De  Giac  his  faithful  Ralflf,  of  the  famous  Andalusian  breed ;  Joan 
of  Arc  her  dashing  courser;  Diana  Vernon  her  "jet  black  Phoebe;"  Ma- 
zeppa  had  his  notorious  animal ;  McDonald  his  Selim  ;  Fannon  his 
trusty  charger,  "  the  Red  Doe ;"  and  Hampton,  as  we  have  already  said, 
also  has  his  special  favorite  in  Lithgow,  that  he  confidently  looks  for- 
ward, at  some  future  day,  to  win  for  him  immortality  and  wealth,  and 
that  had  he  power,  like  the  Roman  Emperor,  he  would  feed  on  golden 
oats,  out  of  a  porcelain  vessel. 

It  is  expected  of  us  on  every  recurrence  of  this  season  of  festivity,  and 
it  is  absolutely  necessary,  by  way  of  preserving  the  chain  of  events,  to 
the  right  understanding  of  what  is  to  follow,  to  review  briefly  what  has 
occurred  of  interest  since  the  last  meeting  of  our  Club,  in  any  manner 
appertaining  to,  and  likely  to  exercise  an  influence,  favorably,  or  not,  on 
our  future  meetings. 

In  the  first  place,  then,  our  Sweepstakes,  which  have  become  now 
firmly  established  as  regular  events,  under  the  designation  of  "  The  Hut- 
chinson Stakes,"  were  opened,  as  usual^  last  Spring;  they  closed  on  the 
first  of  May,  but  did  not  fill  as  well  as  we  had  a  right  to  expect,  when 
the  liberal  bonus  added  by  the  Club,  and  other  circumstances  connected 
with  them,  are  considered.  To  the  Sweepstakes  for  3  year  olds,  2  mile 
heats,  there  were  but  seven  nominations,  namely  : 

1.  John  Harrison's  ch.  f.  by  imp.  Trustee,  out  of  American  Maid. 

2.  0.  P.  Hare's  ch.  c.  by  Boston,  out  of  Canary. 

3.  C.  and  N.  Green's  b.  c.  by  imp.  Mercer,  own  brother  to  Free  Trade. 

4.  Jas.  Talley's  ch.  f.  by  Orator,  out  of  Sarah  Washington. 

5.  M.  R.  Singleton's  ch.  c.  Guardia:i,  by  imp.  Trustee,  out  of  ch.  m. 
by  imp.  Rowton,  out  of  Phenomena. 

0.  M.  R.  Singleton's  b.  c.  Sumter,  by  Hero,  out  of  imp.  Fleet,  by  Au- 
gustus. 


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7.  C.  and  N.  Green's  ch.  c.  by  imp.  Trustee,  dam  by  Mucklejobn. 

The  Sweepstakes  for  two  year  olds,  mile  heats,  did  not  receive  a  single 
nomination,  while  for  the  Sweepstakes  for  three  year  olds,  mile  heats, 
there  were  but  two  colts  named  : 

1.  C  and  N.  Green's  ch.  c.  by  imp.  Trustee,  dam  by  Mucklejohn. 

2.  M.  R.  Singleton's  ch.  c.  Guardian,  by  Trustee. 

As  it  is  one  of  the  conditions  of  the  above  stakes,  that  the  subscribers 
have  a  right  to  declare  of!  before  the  first  of  November,  $50  forfeit,  the 
owners  of  Xo.  2  ar.d  No.  4  in  the  first  stakes,  availed  themselves  of  this 
privilege,  and  struck  out  of  the  Race  ch.  c.  by  Boston,  and  ch.  f.  by  Ora- 
tor, thus  reducing  the  number  to  five,  of  which  but  three  reached  the 
starting  ]ioint — Air.  Harrison's  filly,  Mr.  Singleton's  Guardian,  and  Mr. 
Green's  Stockton. 

The  recent  "  Great  Race  "  of  four  mile  heats,  decided  in  four  heats  over 
the  Long  Island  Course,  between  Tally-Ho,  Bos;.ona,  and  Free  Trade,  in 
which  the  former  won  in  excellent  style,  and  in  tlie  best  time  on  record, 
(all  tilings  being  considered)  of  any  race  ever  run  in  America,  has  cre- 
ated, as  it  jnstly  merits,  a  sensation  among  the  friends  of  the  Turf 
throughout  our  country.  It  will  do  much,  perhaps,  towards  reviving  the 
spirit  of  racing  in  New  York,  and  stimulating  trainers,  to  try  and  make 
the  horses  committed  to  their  charge,  do  as  well  elsewhere.  This  Race 
is  not  only  unsurpassed  on  the  American  Turf,  up  to  the  present  time, 
when  compared  with  the  many  other  great  events  of  four  mile  heats  that 
preceded  it  in  the  same  region,  on  the  Union  Course,  Long  Island, 
which  we  have  had  the  gratification  of  witnessing  as  they  came  off, 
namely : 

The  great  match  between  Eclipse  and  Henry,  decided  in  three  heats, 
in  Y  m.  37  sec.  ;  7.  m.  49  sec. ;  8  m.  24  sec! 

Fashion  and  Boston,  in  two  heats,  run  in  7  ra.  32-^  sec. ;  7  ra.  45  sec. 

John  Bascombe  and  Post  Boy,  the  former  winning  in  good  time. 

Peytona  and  Fashion,  in  two  heats,  run  in  7  m.  39f  sec. ;  7  m.  45^ 
sec. 

Also,  the  race  of  four  mile  heats  for  a  purse  which  took  place  in  the 
Fall  of  1847,  between  Mr.  Hare's  b.  g.  Passenger  and  Fashion,  which, 
after  a  very  interesting  contest,  was  won  by  the  former. 

These  were  all  very  fine  Races,  won  in  capital  time,  and  creating  the 
deepest  interest ;  yet  "the  Great  Race,"  to  which  we  are  now-  alluding,  is 
not  only,  par  excellence,  "  the  Great  Race''''  of  our  times,  but  it  is  in  an 
especial  manner  exceedingly  interesting  to  us  in  Charleston,  as  all  the 
contending  nags  that  distinguished  themselves  on  that  occasion  had  been 


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winners  previously  on  our  Course,  and  made  reputation  for  themselves  in 
South  Carolina. 

Free  Trade,  it  may  be  recollected,  won  the  annual  Hutchinson  Sweep- 
stakes in  1848,  two  mile  heats,  beating  a  b.  f.  by  Priam,  and  a  ch.c.  by 
Bertrand,  Jr.  The  Priam  filly  won  the  first  heat  in  3  m.  47-|-  sec. ;  and 
Free  Trade  the  second  and  third  heats  in  3  m.  54  sec. ;  4  m.  3  sec.  He 
then  walked  over,  same  year,  two  days  afterwards,  for  the  Sweepstakes, 
mile  heats. 

The  performances  of  Bostona  on  our  Course,  are  doubtless,  to  a  certain 
extent,  fresh  in  the  memory  of  all  persons  in  the  habit  of  keeping  the 
run  of  such  events ;  nevertheless,  as  they  form  important  items  in  our 
Turf  history,  the  following  enumeration  of  her  principal  Races  here 
will,  we  are  confident,  be  acceptable,  at  the  present  time,  to  Turfmen 
everywhere,  as  enabling  them,  by  adding  these  performances  to  what 
she  has  done  on  other  Courses,  to  make  up  "  the  sura  and  substance  "  of 
her  gallant  exploits  during  her  brilliant  career  in  the  last  two  vears. 

Bostona  was  nominated  for  the  Hutchinson  Stakes  in  in  1847,  two 
mile  heats,  but  declared  off  before  the  Race.  In  1848,  on  Thursday, 
Feb.  24,  as  a  four  year  old,  she  won  the  Jockey  Club  Purse,  three  mile 
heats,  beating,  in  two  heats,  cli.  f.  Rosemary,  and  a  b.  m.  by  Sarpedon  ; 
first  heat,  in  5  m.  52  sec. ;  second  heat  in  6  m.  6  sec.  In  the  same  year 
(1848)  she  started  on  Saturday,  Feb.  26,  for  the  Handicap  Race,  three 
mile  heats,  and  was  beaten  by  Mr.  Sinkler's  Shark,  after  a  very  fine  and 
close  Race.  In  the  last  heat  of  this  Race  the  saddle  of  Bostona  slipt 
soon  after  starting,  which  greatly  impeded  her  action.  In  1849,  on 
Wednesday,  Feb.  7,  she  won  the  Jockey  Club  Purse  of  $1,000,  four  mile 
heats,  beating  Shark,  in  7  m.  50  sec;  7  m.  57  sec,  who  had  previously 
beaten  her.  In  the  same  year,  (1849)  on  Saturday,  Feb.  10,  she  started 
for  the  Handicap  Race,  three  mile  heats,  and  was  beaten  by  Rosa  Lee,  in 
two  heats,  in  5  m.  51  sec,  and  5  m.  48  sec.  Shark  was  also  in  this  Race 
but  seemed  entirely  otT  his  foot.  From  Rosa  Lee's  high  reputation  for 
speed,  Bostona's  for  unflinching  game,  and  Shark  for  bottom,  this  was  a 
very  betting' affair ;  they  each  had  their  friends  and  backers  at  starting. 
This  was  a  Handicap  Race,  and  they  were  weighed  as  follows  :  Rosa  Lee, 
6  yrs.,  carried  117  !l)s ;  Bostona,  5  yrs.  old,  109  lbs. ;  Shark,  5  ys.,  106  lbs. 

"Tally-Ho,"  the  last  of  the  distinguished  three,  it  remains  for  us  to  no- 
tice, made  his  first  appearance,  as  a  three  year  old,  in  Charleston,  and 
ran  second  to  Col.  Hampton's  "  Millwood,"  for  the  annual  Hutchinson 
Sweepstakes,  in  1849,  for  three  year  olds,  two  mile  heats,  on  Wednesday 
of  the  Race  week,  making  a  very  fine  fast  race,  driving  the  filly  up  to  3 


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m.  48  sec,  and  3  m.  4Y^  sec.  He  started  again  on  Saturday  of  the  same 
week  for  the  Jockey  Club  Purse,  a  single  heat  of  three  miles,  wliich  he 
lost,  though  he  contested  the  race  in  splendid  style,  in  5  m.  49  sec. 

As  this  horse,  by  his  recent  performance  at  New  York,  plucked  the 
laurels  from  so  formidable  a  rival  as  Bostona,  it  put  Mr.  Hare,  the  owner 
of  this  celebrated  mare,  upon  the  qui  vive,  to  avail  himself,  as  quickly  as 
possible,  of  the  first  convenient  opportunity  to  redeem  the  said  laurels, 
and  replace  them  upon  the  brow  of  his  favorite.  He  immediately  fol- 
lowed to  Richmond  one  of  her  competitors, "  Free  Trade,"  who  had  taken 
the  first  heat  from  Bostona  at  New  York.  At  Richmond  Bostona  met 
Free  Trade  Thursday,  Oct.  4,  1849,  in  a  Race  of  three  mile  heats,  and 
defeated  him  in  5  m.  58  sec,  and  5  m.  59  sec.  It  was  then  the  intention 
of  Mr.  Hare,  (at  all  events  we  have  our  suspicion  that  it  was,  from  a 
hint  received  from  a  sporting  friend,)  to  be  with  her  at  our  present  meet- 
ino-  in  the  hope  of  meeting  here  the  same  identical  field,  and  securing 
one  more  trial  with  Tally-Ho  for  the  superiority  ;  but  the  mare  having 
split  a  hoof  whilst  playing  in  a  paddock,  he  was  compelled  to  throw  her 
out  of  training,  thus  putting  an  end  to  the  hopes  of  the  Sporting  World 
in  awain  seeing  three  such  celebrated  nags  come  together. 

Whilst,  however,  we  were  doomed  to  be  disappointed  as  to  these 
named  horses  of  celebrity  taking  part  in  our  Races  this  season,  at  all 
events  we  had  " Free  Trade "  with  us,  one  of  the  " great  guns"  who, 
-whenever  he  does  "  go  off,"  will  probably  do  so  in  a  manner  to  justify  a 
favorable  report  of  his  performances,  besides  others  well  known  to  fame, 
well  qualified  to  test  his  real  merits,  and  insure  fine  sport. 

We  come  now  to  a  painful  part  of  our  official  duty,  but  however  pain- 
ful, we  must  perform  it  with  all  due  respect. 

Our  Races  had  no  sooner  terminated  last  year,  than  the  death  was  an- 
nounced of  Mr.  John  Lyde  Wilson,  a  gentleman  of  talents  and  renown. 
He  was  one  of  the  oldest  and  most  valuable  members  of  the  South  Ca- 
rolina Jockey  Club.  It  is  indebted  to  him  for  much  of  its  present  pros- 
perity. He  was  its  SoUcitor  for  many  years,  not  only  discharging  the 
duties  that  devolved  upon  him  by  virtue  of  his  office,  with  zeal  and  abil- 
ity, but  continually  suggesting  improvements  and  schemes,  which  he  car- 
ried out  with  signal  benefit  and  profit  to  those  whose  interests  he  was 
advocating.  He  was  the  first  to  propose  the  purchase  of  the  Race 
Ground,  on  the  part  of  the  Club,  from  the  original  proprietors — then,  to 
fence  it  in,  by  which,  a  small  charge  being  made  to  foot  passengers,  a 
considerable  additional  income  was  secured  annually  to  the  funds. 


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In  1840  he  prepared  and  published  a  very  useful  synopsis  of  the  Rules 
of  Bettino;,  with  other  information  of  value  to  sporting  men.  He  was 
also  entitled  to  the  credit  of  having  the  present  Citizens'  Stand  erected ; 
and  also  proposed,  some  years  back,  (which  was  not  a  very  popular  sug- 
gestion at  the  time,  but  has  become  so  much  so  of  late  that  we  believe 
in  a  few  years  that  it  will  be  carried  into  ett'ect,)  namely,  the  erection,  on 
the  part  of  the  Club,  of  an  appropriate  building  or  hall,  for  its  own  use 
during  the  Race  week,  and  to  be  let  out  for  concerts  and  balls,  and  other 
purposes,  during  the  rest  of  the  year,  to  secure  an  interest  upon  the  in- 
vestment. 

"  Sint  hsec  etiam  sua  prasmia  laudi." 

These  are  some  of  the  benefits  that  have  resulted  to  the  Club,  from 
the  long  official  service  of  the  late  Mr.  Wilson.  We  are  confident  we 
do  but  echo  the  sentiment  of  every  member,  when  we  say,  that  "  he  has 
done  the  Club  some  service,  and  they  know  it."  We  are  gratified  to  be 
able  to  avail  ourselves  of  this  opportunity 

"  To  give  him  good  report  for  it." 

On  Saturday  evening  the  Club  held  its  usual  meeting  for  the  transac- 
tion of  business,  and  to  make  its  arrangements  for  the  next  season.  Se- 
veral suggestions  were  made,  and  plans  proposed,  which,  if  carried  out 
and  completed,  will  add  much  to  the  interest  of  the  season  of  1851,  and 
render  it  a  memorable  epoch  in  our  annals  of  racing.  We  have  no  doubt 
that  a  double  match  between  the  stables  of  Virginia  and  South  Carolina 
will  be  concluded,  each  State  to  name  four^  and  run  two  ;  or  name  two 
and  run  one,  as  in  the  year  that  Col.  James  B.  Richardson  challenged 
the  world  with  his  Little  Venus,  and  Bertrand,  Jr.,  which  was  accepted 
by  Col.  Johnson  with  Andrew  and  Bonnets  o'  Blue. 

It  has  also  been  proposed  that  a  Citizens'  Purse,  of  large  amount, 
should  be  run  for,  on  the  Saturday  preceding  the  regular  Races,  by  which 
it  is  thought  we  may  safely  rely  upon  no  less  than  three  entries  from 
Tennessee,  two  from  Kentucky,  three  from  Virginia,  and  five  from  our 
own  State,  besides  the  other  chances  of  swelling  the  field,  from  the 
hopes  that  will  be  entertained  of  carrying  oflf  so  large  a  purse,  as  may 
safely  be  depended  upon  from  "  the  publicans  and  sinners  "  of  Charles- 
ton, if  they  really  take  the  matter  up  in  earnest. 

The  Hutchinson  Sweepstakes  were  again  opened  for  next  yeai-,  and 
the  usual  appropriations  voted  for  the  regular  Jockey  Club  Purses,  of 
four,  three,  and  two  mile  heats,  and  for  the  Handicap  Race  on  Saturday. 

In  the  course  of  the  week,  a  resolution  highly  complimentary  to  Col. 


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Singleton,  was  passed  by  the  Club,  rerognizing  his  claim  to  be  honored 
in  an  especial  manner,  in  consequence  of  his  bavins;  been  a  member  of 
the  Club  for  fifty  years.  He  was  unanimously  elected  an  honorary  mem- 
ber. 

The  Secretary  was  directed  to  convey  to  Col.  Singleton  the  proceed- 
ing of  the  Club  in  this  matter,  which  pleasing  duty  he  had  the  gratifica- 
tion to  perform  by  the  subjoined  letter  : 

Charleston,  February,  1850. 
CoL.  Richard  Sixgleton  : 

Dear  Sir — The  pleasing  duty  devolves,  upon  me,  to  present  to  you  the 
following  resolution,  passed  unanimously  by  the  South  Carolina  Jockey 
Club: 

"In  consideration  of  the  long  period  that  Col.  Richard  Singleton  has 
been  identified  with  this  Club  as  a  member,  and  the  agreeable  character 
of  our  social  intercourse  with  him,  together  with  the  benefits  that  the 
American  Turf  has  derived  from  his  support,  he  is  hereby  unanimously 
declared  an  Honorary  Member  of  the  South  Carolina  Jockey  Club." 

In  conveying  to  you  the  above  resolution,  permit  me  to  accompany  it 
with  the  assurances  of  my  own  personal  regard,  and  my  most  respectful 
appreciation  of  the  kind  courtesy  that  has  ever  marked  your  intercourse 
with  me  as  an  oflacer  of  the  Club. 

John  B.  Irving,  Secretary. 

In  reply  to  the  above  letter,  Col.  Singleton  acknowledged  the  honor 
conferred  upon  him,  and  signified  his  willingness,  at  all  times  hereafter, 
by  his  experience,  advice,  and  countenance,  to  further  the  prosperity  of 
the  South  Carolina  Jockey  Club,  and  to  promote  the  interest  of  the  sports 
over  the  Washington  Course. 

1851. —  Wednesday,  Feb.  5. — Jockey  Club  Purse,  |1,000,  for  all  ages, 
weight  for  age. 

T.  B.  Patterson's  b.m.  Charmer,   by  imp.    Glencoe,  out  of  Betsey 

IM  alone,  by  Stockholder,  6  yrs., 11 

M.  R.  Singleton's  br.  g.  Capt.  Minor,  by  imp.  Monarch,  out  of  imp. 

Cheap,  by  Glaucus,  out  of  Christabel,  by  Woful,  5  yrs.,      .        2        2 

Time — 1st  heat,  7  m.  57  sec. ;  2d  heat,  7  m.  55  sec. 

Same  day. — Hutchinson  Stake  for  3  year  olds. — Colts,  90  lbs.,  fillies 
87  lbs.  Eight  subscribers  at  $250  each,  h.  ft.,  $50  if  declared  before 
the  1st  November  ;  if  two  or  more  start,  the  Club  to  add  §500. — 2  mile 
heats. 


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Jas.  Talley's  ch-  g.  Inspector,  by  Boston,  cut  of  Sarah  Washington,  1  1 
W.  A  Stuart's  b.  f.  by  Wagner,  out  of  Minstrel  by  Medoc,  ..22 
M.  E.  Singleton's  br.  f.  Mirth,  by  Wagner,  out   of   Capt.   Minor's 

dam,    .         .         .         .         ; 3         3 

C.  &  N.  Green's  b.  f.  by  Boston,  out  of  Emily  Thomas,  paid  forfeit. 

C.  &  N.  Green's  b.  g.  by  Boston,  dam  by  imp.  Priam,  paid  forfeit. 

Wade  Hampton's  br.  f.  Fleur-de-Lis,  by  imp.  Sovereign,  out  of  Maria 
"West,  paid  forfeit. 

J.  G.  Guignard's  b.  c.  by  imp.  Sovereign,  dam  by  imp.  Hybiscus,  paid 
forfeit. 

John  Belcher's  ch.  c.  by  Billy  Townes,  dam  by  imp.  Priam,  paid 
forfeit. 

Time — 1st  heat,  3  m.  49  sec. ;  2d  heat,  3  m.  43  sec. 

The  Hutchinson  Stakes,  fi.xed  for  the  day,  were  no  sooner  brought  to 
a  conclusion  than  there  was  an  immediate  preparation  for  "  the  TiirtU 
Stakes^''  which  were  announced  to  come  ofi'  on  another  Course^  else- 
where. The  Club,  with  its  invited  guests,  having  adjourned  to  the 
locus  in  quo,  or  meat  (meet  we  mean),  that  being  the  more  sporting- 
phrase,  the  annual  dinner  of  the  Club  took  place. 

The  President,  James  Rose,  Esq.,  was  in  the  Chair,  assisted  by  the 
Hon.  John  S.  Ashe,  Vice-President.  The  dinner  was  served  up  in  that 
style  of  elegance  and  abundance  which  characterizes  all  the  entertain- 
ments annually  given  by  the  South  Carolina  Jockey  Club.  The  meats, 
dessert  and  wines  were  equally  deserving  of  praise,  and  the  banquet  was 
in  every  respect  a  most  delightful  one,  for  the  urbanity  of  the  excellent 
chairman  (his  spirits  Hose  with  the  occasion),  and  the  hearty  good  feel- 
ing which  pervaded  the  company,  made  the  hours  pass  merrily. 

Dispersed  around  the  table  were  groups,  here  and  there,  presenting 
features  of  interest  to  the  eye  and  heart  of  every  friend  of  the  Turf 
We  recognized  many  old  friends,  whose  long  connection  with  our  Club 
is  well  known,  and  many  whose  presence  is  well  calculated  to  give  eclat 
to  any  party. 

By  a  unanimous  vote,  the  high  compliment  of  Honorary  Membership 
was  paid  to  Dr.  Irving,  in  consideration  of  his  having  served,  as  Secre- 
tary, for  twenty-five  years. 

Thursday^  Feb.  6. — Jockey  Club  Purse,  |750,  for  all  ages,  weights 
as  before. — 3  mile  heats. 

Wade   Hampton's  b.  c.  Lithgow,  by  imp.  Monarch,  out  of  Fanny 

by  Eclipse,  4  yrs  , 4121 

W.  H.  Sinkler's  ch.  c.  Jeff  Davis,  by  Hero,  out  of  Marigold,  3  yrs.,     5     2     12 
Capt.  J.  Harrison's  ch.  m  Rosa  Lee,  by  Boston,  out  of  imp.  Emily  by 

Emilius,  aged, 3    3     dr. 


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T.  B.  Patterson's  ch.  g.  Reube,  by  imp.  Trustee,  out  of  Minstrel  by 

Medoc,  5  yrs.,  • 1     dist.* 

James  Talley's  b.  f.  Oratrix,  by  Orator,  out  of  Sarah  Washington, 

4  yrs., 2     dr 

Time — 5  m.  48  sec. ;  5  m.  44  sec. ;  5  m.  59  sec. ;  5  m.  56  sec. 

The  first  heat  was  won  by  Reube  in  very  handsome  style,  in  5  m.  48 
sec,  and  he  came  in  first  in  the  second  heat,  in  5  m.  44  sec,  but  he 
was  declared  distanced,  and  the  heat  awarded  to  Lithgow,  in  conse- 
quence of  a  cross,  just  as  the  two  were  making  play  in  the  rush  home. 
Whips  going,  flanks  spurred,  necks  outstretched,  they  came  up  close 
together  in  the  last  quarter  stretch,  the  heat  left  to  the  two — half  way 
up,  Reube  challenged,  and  passed  ahead  on  the  outside,  but  hung  upon 
Lithgow,  and  ran  in  immediately  in  front  of  him.  Reube  being  severely 
punished,  ran  unkindly,  it  is  said,  and  swerved,  the  rider  not  being  able 
to  keep  him  straight.  Oratrix  was  withdrawn  after  the  first  heat,  and 
Rosa  Lee  after  the  second,  the  old  mare  running  well  up  in  a  good  posi- 
tion to  the  end.  The  third  heat  was  a  very  pretty  one  between  Jeff 
Davis  and  Lithgow,  the  former  winning  it  in  5  m.  59  sec.  The  fourth, 
and  deciding  heat,  5  m.  56  sec,  was  very  doubtful  to  the  last,  Lithgow 
just  contriving  to  outlast  the  young  one,  who  ran  a  remarkably  game 
race,  and,  in  our  judgment,  might  have  won  it,  if  he  had  been  jockied 
judiciously.  He  is  certainly  a  very  neat,  promising  three  year  old,  and 
destined  to  be  distinguished  at  a  maturer  age. 

The  principle  upon  which  the  Club  acted  in  declaring  Reube  dis- 
tanced, is  identically  the  same  as  was  settled  in  a  precisely  parallel  case 
recently  at  Newmarket,  in  England,  by  the  stewards  of  the  Jockey  Club, 
Lord  Glasgow  and  Col.  Peel,  who  called  in  Lord  Stanley  to  their  assist- 
ance, namely,  that  no  matter  whether  a  cross  be  accidental  or  intentional, 
the  penalty  is  the  same,  and  that  according  to  rule,  a  horse,  though 
coming  in  first,  is  thereby  disqualified  from  winning  the  race. 

At  the  Newmarket  Houghton  Meeting,  in  last  October,  for  a  Handi- 
cap Sweepstakes,  a  large  field  started,  Mr.  Blyth's  Hippogriff,  and  a  filly 
by  Venison,  the  property  of  Mr.  Armstrong,  were  the  contending  horses 
at  the  finish.  The  race  was  thus  described :  "  within  the  ropes  the 
Venison  filly  had  the  lead — half  way  up  Hippogriff  challenged,  and  got 
his  head  first,  and  on  being  struck  with  the  whip,  hung  upon  the  filly." 

Hippogriff  came  in  first,  but  an  objection  having  been  raised  by  the 
rider  of  the  Venison  filly  in  consequence  of  the  jostle,  an  investigation 

*  Reube  came  in  first,  but  was  declared  distanced  in  consequence  of  a  cross. 


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was  made  into  the  matter  by  tlie  Stewards,  when  the  following  official 
decision  was  given  : 

"  We  are  of  opinion,  after  hearing  all  the  evidence  produced  by  both 
parties,  that  Hippogriff  swerved,  and  came  in  contact  with  the  filly, 
thereby  occasioning  a  jostle,  which,  according  to  rule,  disqualifies  him 
from  winning  the  race,  although  we  think  that  the  Jockey  did  all  in  his 
power  to  keep  his  horse  straight,  that  no  blame  attaches  to  him,  and 
that  the  evidence  does  not  prove  that  the  jostle  prevented  the  filly  from 
winning.  (Signed)  Glasgow. 

J.  Pekl." 

Same  daij — Jockey  Club  Purse,  $150  ;  for  all  ages,  weights  as  before. 
2  mile  heats. 

W.  H.  Sinkler's  ch.  g.  by  "Wagner,  out  of  Symmetry,  3  yrs.,    ..11 
J.  Harrison's  ch.  f.  Jane  Bullock,  by  imp.  Trustee,  out  of  American 

Maid,  4  yrs. 2        2 

Alex.  Gilliam's  ch.  g.  Otteway,  by  Boston,  out  of  Canary,  4  yrs.,     .        3        3 

Time — 3  m.  52  sec. ;  3  m.  55  sec. 

Friday,  Feh.  1. — Jockey  Club  Purse,  $500. — 2  mile  heats — afforded 
a  large  field,  and  a  magnificent  Race.  We  must,  therefore,  endeavor  to 
do  justice  to  it  by  a  report  becoming  the  occasion,  and  the  excitement 
it  produced. 

"  Now  attest 
That  those  whom  you  call'd  Fathers,  did  beget  you  ! 

Show  us  here 
The  mettle  of  your  pasture  ;  let  us  swear 
That  you  are  worth  your  breeding — which  I  doubt  not. 
For  there  is  none  of  you  so  mean  and  base, 
That  hath  not  noble  lustre  in  your  eyes  : 
I  see  you  stand,  like  greyhounds,  in  the  slips, 
Straining  upon  the  start." 

As  the  hour  appointed  for  starting  the  horses  approached,  seven  made 
their  appearance  in  the  enclosure  :  Mr.  Sinkler's  ch.  g.  Lot,  by  Hero — 
Col.  Hampton's  b.  m.  Millwood,  by  Monarch — Mr.  Talley's  ch.  g.  In- 
spector, by  Boston — Mr.  Singleton's  br.  m.  Prima  Donna,  by  Priam — 
Mr.  Richardson's  ch.  f.  Julia,  by  Bertrand— Mr.  Gilliam's  b.  g.  Thirteen 
of  Trumps,  by  Boston — and  Mr.  Harrison's  ch.  h.  Dr.  Starke,  by 
Monarch. 

A  busy  movement  soon  commenced  in  every  direction.  Groups 
formed  on  all  sides — horsemen  rode  hurriedly  from  place  to  place,  and 
pedestrians  ran  about  to  make  their  bets,  or  secure  good  situations  to 
see  the  coming  struggle.  The  crowd  is  immense,  lining  both  sides  of 
the  Course  for  a  considerable  distance  in  the  vicinity  of  the  coming  in 
chair,  the  anxiety  of   the  populace   increasing  every  moment.     The 


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horses,  saddled  and  mounted,  are  led  up  and  down  preparatory  to  the 
start.  The  Stewards  take  their  posts,  the  Judges  their  places,  and 
arrange  their  watches.  The  Course  is  cleared — every  eye  throughout 
that  vast  assembly  is  bent  in  one  direction — even  the  ladies,  in  great 
numbers  in  the  stand,  a  parterre  of  lovely  flowers,  rivalling  in  beauty 
and  freshness  the  luxuriance  of  Nature  around,  that  in  this  very  remark- 
able season  of  premature  warmth  and  sunshine,  is  already  putting  forth 
her  blossoms  of  early  spring,  to  please  the  eye  and  make  grateful  the 
heart ;  even  the  ladies,  I  say  (bless  them  for  their  countenance  of  the 
sport),  turned  their  pretty  faces  from  examining  the  becoming  satin  or 
silk  dresses  of  their  own  sex,  to  admire  the  beautiful  silki/  coats  of  the 
glossy  and  yveW-dressed  horses  before  them, 

A.11  being  in  readiness,  the  horses  are  led  down  a  little  before  the 
starting-post,  and  formed  into  line — what  a  beautiful  sight ! 

"  I  see  you  stand,  like  gi'eyliounds,  in  the  slips, 
Straining  upon  the  start." 

On  a  preconcerted  signal  being  given,  they  are  off  simultaneously — 
they  come  up  in  front  of  the  stand  with  one  impulse,  moving  together 
so  evenly,  they  look  more  like  a  disciplined  cohort,  or  battalion  of  cav- 
alry, charging  and  preserving  its  line,  than  rival  parties,  striving  to 
outstrip  each  other  in  the  struggle  of  a  race — they  bound  along  for  a 
mile  and  three-quarters  with  a  mighty  rush,  tearing  through  the  yield- 
ing air  like  a  flock  of  wildfowl  with  a  strong  wing,  seeming  to  spurn  the 
ground  on  which  they  tread.  As  they  swung  into  the  last  quarter 
home,  all,  save  one,  are  well  up  in  good  places ;  as  they  approached  the 
goal,  the  result  was  in  doubt  almost  to  the  last  jump.  At  the  last  mo 
ment,  however,  Thirteen  of  Trumps,  like  a  meteor  madly  shooting  from 
its  sphere,  darted  ahead,  and  won  the  heat,  Mr.  Sinkler's  Lot  second, 
making  a  magnificent  finish.  A  closer,  more  exciting,  and  more  deter- 
mined struggle,  throughout  the  entire  heat,  has  seldom  been  witnessed. 

Julia  having  been  distanced,  and  Dr.  Starke  withdrawn,  five  came  to 
the  post  for  the  second  heat.  On  getting  off,  it  was  soon  manifest  that 
this,  like  the  first,  was  to  be  no  w^aiting  heat.  They  are  all  together 
again.  In  running  the  last  quarter,  each  jockey  seemed  to  give  an  ad- 
ditional lift  to  his  horse,  and  to  touch  him  with  his  spur.  The  excited 
animals,  as  if  fired  by  an  emulation  equal  to  their  riders,  simultaneously 
made  an  extra  exertion,  and  increased  their  rapid  speed — as  they  rush 
along,  a  cloud  of  dust  tracks  their  furious  progress.  Within  the  dis- 
tance post,  Inspector,  Lot,  and  Millwood  have  drawn  a  little  clear  of  the 
others,  in  which  order,  after  a  sharp  rally,  they  terminated  the  heat  in 
3  m.  43  sec. 


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At  the  end  of  tlie  second  heat,  Thirteen  of  Trumps  was  withdrawn, 
when  four  started  for  the  third  heat.  Inspector  led  off,  closely  pressed 
throughout  by  Millwood  and  Lot ;  the  Boston  stock,  however,  was  not 
to  be  outlasted,  even  by  a  Hero  or  a  Monarchy  and  Inspector  won  the 
heat  and  the  race  in  3  m.  45  sec. 

Friday,  Feb.  7. — Jockey  Club  Purse,  |500. — For  all  ages,  weights 
as  before. — 2  mile  heats. 

James  Talley's  ch.  g.  Inspector,  by  Boston,  out  of  Sarah  Washing- 
ton, 3  yrs., 411 

Wade  Hampton's  b.  m.  Millwood,  by  imp.  Monarch,  out  of  Fanny, 

5  yrs., 332 

W.  H.  Sinkler's  ch.  g.  Lot,  by  Hero,  out  of  Phenomena,  by  Sir  Ar- 

chy,  4  yrs., .         .223 

M.  R.  Singleton's  br.  m.  Prima  Donna,  by  imp.  Priam,  out  of  Ata- 

lanta,  6  yrs., 5      4     dist. 

Alex.  Gilliam's  b.  g.  Thirteen  of  Trumps,  by  Boston,  out  of  Emily 

Thomas,  5  yrs., 1      5    dr. 

J.  Harrison's  ch.  h.  Dr.  Starke,   by  imp.   Monarch,  out  of  Lucy 

Abbott,  5  yrs., 6    dr. 

W.  H.  B.  Richardson's  ch.  f.  Julia,  byBertrand,  Jr.,  dam  by  Con- 
federate, 4  yrs., dist. 

Time — 3  m.  45  sec. ;  3  m.  43  sec. ;  3  m.  45  sec. 

Since  the  above  race,  Inspector  has  gone  into  the  stable  of  M. 
E.  Singleton,  Esq.,  at  the  handsome  sum  of  $2,500 — pretty  well  for 
a  gelding.  Regarded,  however,  as  the  best  animal  of  his  age  in  America, 
it  is  no  wonder  he  has  commanded  the  best  price. 

Same  daij. — Hutchinson  Stake  for  3  year  olds,  colts  90  lbs.,  fillies  87 
lbs.  Five  subscribers  at  |250  each,  llOO  forfeit,  $50  if  declared,  with 
$200  added  by  the  Club  if  two  or  more  start. — Mile  heats. 

C.  &  N.  Green's  b.  g.  Tom  Walker,  by  Boston,  dam  by  imp.  Priam,         1         1 
M.  R.  Singleton's  ch.  c  by  Wagner,  out  of  imp.  Medora,  ..42 

Jas.  Talley's  ch.  f.  Lady  Fairfield,  by  IJerald,  out  of  Betsey  White,         3        3 
John  Harrison's  b.  c.  by  imp.  Sovereign,  out  of  Mary  Elizabeth  by 

Andrew, 2        4 

Wade  Hampton's  br.  g.  by  imp.  Sovereign,  out  of  Kate  Seaton,  paid 
forfeit. 

Time — 1  m.  51  sec. ;  1  m.  52  sec. 

Both  heats  of  the  race  were  prettily  contested,  but  the  result  did  not 
seem  to  be  in  any  doubt  after  the  first  heat — Green's  Tom  Walker  won 
cle\  erly  in  1  m.  51  sec. ;  1  m.  52  sec. 

It  seems  that  this  stake  belongs  to  Mr.  Green,  he  having  conti'ived  to 
win  it  every  year  since  it  was  opened. 


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Saturday,  Feb.  8. — 

"  Waft  the  floating  joy 
Through  all  the  regions  near — afflictive  birch 
No  more  the  schoolboy  dreads ;  his  prison  broke, 
Scampering  he  flies,  nor  hears  his  master's  call. 
Men,  boys  and  girls 
Desert  the  unpeopled  village,  and  wild  crowds 
Spread  o'er  the  plain,  by  the  sweet  frenzy  seized." 

SoMEKVILLE. 

This  was  another  glorious  clay  for  the  Turf.  Everything  seemed  to 
conspire  to  insure  gratification.  The  morn  was  bright  and  pleasant  as 
morn  could  be,  bringing  that  sense  of  life,  that  luxury  of  breathing,  that 
can  only  be  experienced  in  a  winter  climate  as  delicious  as  ours.  The 
Course  was  more  crowded  than  we  have  seen  it  for  many  seasons — 
being  a  holiday,  the  schools  were  all  out,  consequeatly  the  younger 
members  of  our  community  turned  out  in  great  numbers,  their  young 
faces  beaming  with  pleasure  in  all  directions. 

It  was  quite  a  pleasing  sight  to  see  so  many  of  the  rising  generation 
present  on  the  ground  with  their  delighted  mammas,  who  of  course 
"  Icnew  that  they  were  outP  The  little  urchins,  in  their  best  bib  and 
tucker,  seemed  to  enjoy  themselves  very  much,  munching  gingerbread 
cakes  clapping  their  little  hands,  and  pointing  from  time  to  time  to 
their  favorite  horse,  given  earnest  that  hereafter,  when  experience  shall 
have  ripened  judgment  and  confirmed  their  tastes,  they  will  be  worthy 
representatives  of  their  sires,  ready  to  perpetuate  the  existence  and  quali- 
fied to  maintain  the  character  of  the  South  Carolina  Jockey  Club. 

The  drum  beats  for  saddling,  and  four  horses  make  their  appearance 
for  the  first  race  of  the  day — a  Handicap,  Jockey  Club  Purse,  8600 — 3 
mile  heats.  Mr.  Patterson's  b.  m.  Charmer,  6  yrs.,  handicapped  to 
carry  117  lbs.;  Mr.  Singleton's  Capt.  Minor,  5  yrs.,  102  lbs.;  Mr.  Stu- 
art's filly,  3  yrs.,  by  Wagner,  a  feather ;  and  Mr.  Harrison's  Rosa  Lee, 
aged,  109  lbs. 

T.  B.  Patterson's  b.  m.   Charmer,  by  imp.  Glencoe,  out  of  Betsey 

Malone,  by  Stockholder,  6  yrs.,  117  lbs  ,     .         .        .        .411 
M.  R.  Singleton's  br.  g.  Capt.  Minor,  by  imp.  Monarch,  out  of  imp. 

Cheap,  by  Glaucus,  5  yrs.,  102  lbs., 3     4     2 

W.  A.  Stuart's  b.  f.  by  Wagner,  out  of  Minstrel  by  Medoc,  3  yrs., 

a  feather, 1      2    dr. 

Capt.  J.  Harrison's  ch.  m.  Rosa  Lee,  by  Boston,  out  of  imp.  Emily 

by  Emilius,  aged,  109  lbs., 2     3    dr. 

Time — 5  m.  46  sec. ;  5  m.  40  sec. ;  5  m.  57  sec. 
Public  opinion  was  a  little  divided  as  to  the  favorite.     Stuart's  filly, 
being  well  in,  had  many  friends,  but  yet  Charmer  was  taken  for  choice 
against  her.     At  the  start,  Stuart's  filly  and  Rosa  Lee  dashed  off"  at  a  rat- 
tling pace,  and  kept  it  up  throughout  the  heat,  the  filly  winning  it  in  5 


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m.  46  sec,  Rosa  Lee  dose  up,  Minor  third  and  Charmer  fourth  ;  the  two 
last  evidently  waiting  on  each  other. 

In  the  second  heat,  Stuart's  filly  made  play,  as  before,  but  was  soon 
challenged  by  Charmer,  both  showing  a  fine  turn  of  speed  and  lasting 
qualities  to  the  end,  the  heat  having  been  run  in  the  shortest  time  on 
record  on  our  Course,  5  m.  40  sec.  As  the  pace  between  Charmer  and 
Stuart's  filly  increased,  Rosa  Lee  and  Minor  pulled  back,  so  as  just  to  be 
within  their  distance. 

On  coming  up  for  the  third  heat,  Stuart's  filly  and  Rosa  Lee  were 
drawn,  and  the  race  left  to  Charmer  and  Minor.  The  issue  was  never 
in  doubt  for  a  moment.  Charmer  coming  in  first  with  ease. 

We  have  heard  it  said  that  Minor  was  not  himself  in  his  two  races 
this  year,  and  that  his  style  of  going  was  not  equal  to  preceding  seasons. 
But  this  is  a  mistake.  He  certainly  did  not  pick  himself  up  in  his  first 
race  on  Wednesday  at  the  first  going  oflT,  as  spiritedly  as  we  have  seen 
him,  but  on  Saturday  he  ran  a  gamer  race  than  he  ever  did  in  his  life. 
The  truth  is,  he  met  on  this  occasion  a  better  animal  than  he  ever  en- 
countered before,  and,  instead  of  losing  character  by  defeat,  has  added 
to  his  reputation,  by  the  fact  of  having  been  placed  in  a  3  mile  race  in 
three  successive  heats  of  5  m.  46  sec,  5  m.  50  sec,  5  m.  57  sec. — an 
achievement  for  any  horse  to  trimnph  in  ;  and  as  an  evidence  of  the 
higher  estimation  in  which  another  of  the  field  was  held,  namely,  Stu- 
art's filly,  immediately  after  the  race,  a  half  interest  in  her  was  sold  for 
$1,000. 

Same  day. — Jockey  Club  Purse,  $300 — For  all  ages,  Post  entrance, 
Club  weights. — 3  miles. 

T.B.Patterson's  ch.  g.  Reube,  pedigree  above,  5  yrs.,    ....  1 

Wade  Hampton's  b.  m.  Millwood,  pedigree  above,  5  yrs  ,         .         .         .  2 

C.  it  N.  Green's  b.  g.  Tom  Walker,  pedigree  above,  3  yrs.,     ...  3 

W.  H.  Sinkler's  ch.  g.  by  Wagner,  out  of  Symmetry,  3  yrs.,    ...  4 

Time — 5  ra.  42  sec. 

This  race  has  always  been  a  sporting  aff"air  with  us,  affording  a  close 
contest.  Mr.  Patterson's  Reube,  Col.  Hampton's  Millwood,  Mr.  Green's 
b.  g.  by  Boston,  and  Sinkler's  ch.  g.  by  Wagner,  were  no  sooner  named 
at  the  post,  than  some  spirited  betting  commenced.  The  Louisiana 
entry  had  the  call,  although  each  of  the  others  were  much  fancied. 
Millwood  was  known  to  have  foot  enough  to  make  her  very  formidable 
in  a  single  dash  of  three  miles.  Green's  entry  had  won  the  Hutchinson 
Stakes  the  day  previous  in  good  style,  and  Sinkler's  entry  by  Wagner, 
had,  on  Thursday,  distinguished  himself  by  winning  the  second  race  of 
2  mile  heats,  beating  two  fast  competitors. 


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Every  one  anticipated  a  good  race,  and  as  the  horses  were  saddled 
and  mounted,  the  betting  still  went  on  with  spirit — on  all  sides  might 
be  heard,  "  I'll  bet  you,  sir  !"     "  Done  !— done  !" 

But  they  are  off — on  they  speed.  Hark  !  to  the  ominous  hum  of  the 
crowd  !  See  the  agitation  of  the  field,  undulating  to  and  fro,  like  stormy 
water ! — the  horses  have  gone  round  the  Course,  once,  twice,  in  close 
companionship — they  enter  the  third  and  last  mile — beautifully  they 
pass  down  the  back  stretch,  every  eye  following  their  quick  movement, 
as  they  skim  along  smoothly  as  swallows — they  turn  the  corner  into  the 
straight  run  home — none  seemed  disposed  to  lag  behind,  to  tire,  or  give 
the  contest  up — they  are  all  together  as  yet,  at  the  top  of  their  speed. 
Birds  that  wing  their  airy  way,  fishes  that  cut  the  seas,  are  not  more 
swift  than  they,  nor  move  with  greater  ease — "  the  cry  is.  Still  they 
come !"  Reube,  who  had  been  a  little  in  the  rear,  has  crept  closer  up — 
he  has  reached  the  girths  of  the  foremost  horse — he's  at  his  head — he's 
a  little  in  front ! — he  leads  the  field  by  a  neck  ! — the  excitement  is  at 
its  height — up  the  Course  they  fly,  the  animals  seeming  to  imbibe  a 
portion  of  the  popular  excitement — they  pass  the  distance  post — the 
scene  is  drawing  to  a  close — nearer  and  nearer  they  approach — they 
are  close  to  the  string — one  more;  jump  ! — they  have  passed  under  it  all 
near  together,  but  the  judge  has  given  the  heat  to  Reube,  Millwood 
second. 

As  the  horses  dash  by  the  goal,  with  the  swiftness  of  a  cannon  ball, 
the  fixedness  of  attitude,  the  almost  breathless  stillness  of  the  moment 
before,  is  changed  in  an  instant  to  one  universal  movement,  to  one 
simultaneous  shout  of  exultation,  that  makes  "  the  welkin  ring,"  suc- 
ceeded by  a  furious  galloping  of  horsemen  from  every  direction,  and  a 
rush  of  all  the  pedestrians  on  the  ground  towards  the  Judges'  chair,  to 
learn  the  issue  of  the  race. 

Thus,  notwithstanding  the  extraordinary  amount  and  character  of  the 
sport  previously  enjoyed,  this  last  race  afforded  a  splendid  finish  to  the 
whole.  It  was  like  the  last  scene  to  some  melodrama,  well  got  up — the 
very  effect  which  most  dazzles  the  spectator  is  the  signal  to  drop  the 
curtain  ! 

I  cannot  close  this  report  of  what  transpired  at  the  present  meeting, 
without  a  recapitulation  of  some  of  its  events  and  peculiar  features, 
which  may  serve  still  further  to  refresh  the  memory  of  many  who  at- 
tended our  races,  and  bring  back  much  that  was  agreeable. 

The  weather  has  been  favorable  throughout,  the  sport  excellent,  the 
attendance  on  the  Course  numerous,  almost  beyond  precedent,  and,  I 
need  not  add,  highly  select,  for  the  stand  was  daily  filled  by  the  fairer 


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part  of  our  creation,  "  by  wit  and  beauty  graced."  The  two  last  days 
were  bumpers  ;  every  part  of  tbe  Course,  where  the  people  "most  do 
congregate"  on  such  occasions,  being  crowded,  reminding  us  of  the 
good  old  times,  when  our  Races  had  attraction  alike  for  all  classes. 
The  different  events  as  they  came  off  were  not  only  productive  of  extra- 
ordinary excitement  on  the  part  of  the  owners  of  the  horses  contending, 
but  led  to  considerable  speculation,  and  a  coresponding  interest  on  the 
part  of  the  public,  who  happened  to  be  either  at  a  distance  acquainted 
witli  the  blood  of  the  animals,  or  those  more  fortunate,  who  were  able 
to  get  to  the  scene  of  action,  and  "  l:»e  lookers  on  here  in  Vienna." 

The  purses  were,  as  usual,  very  liljeral,  amounting  to  §4,000  in  cash, 
given  by  the  Club,  and  promptly  paid,  without  counting  the  entrances 
and  forfeits  to  the  Hutchinson  Stakes,  which,  if  added,  would  swell  the 
sum  total  of  the  good  things  that  were  within  the  reach  of  the  different 
stables  attending  the  Charleston  Races  this  year,  to  six  thousand  three 
hundred  dollar?, ! 

We  can  make  this  more  plainly  appear  by  the  following  recapitu- 
lation : 

First  day — Purse  $1,000,  won  by  Charmer |1,000 

Hutchinson  Stakes,  2  mile  heats — $200  given  by  the 

Club,  entrance  and  forfeit,  |1,200 1,700 

Second  day — Purse  $750,  won  by  Lithgow , 750 

Purse  Ji^lSO,  won   by  ch.  g.  by  Wagner 150 

Third  day — Purse  $500,  won  by  Inspector 500 

Hutchinson  Stakes,  mile  heats,  $200  given   by  the 
Club — entrances  and  forfeit  $1,100 — won  by  Tom 

Walker 1,300 

Fourth  day — Handicap  Purse  $600,  won  by  Charmer 600 

Purse  $300,  won  by  Reube 300 

$6,800 
It  will  be  seen  that  the  Louisiana  stable  carried  off  three  of  the  prizes, 
and  but  for  the  contretemps  of  Reube,  would  have  won  four.  We  are 
rejoiced  that,  as  this  is  the  first  season  we  have  been  visited  by  a  Loui- 
siana stable,  such  good  fortune  should  have  rewarded  the  owner,  not 
only  for  having  come  so  far,  but  for  having  manifested  throughout  the 
meeting,  on  a  very  trying  occasion,  the  true  spirit  of  a  gentleman,  and 
a  high  minded,  honorable  sportsman !  He  carries  back  with  him  to  his 
home  the  respect  of  every  member  of  the  South  Carolina  Jockey  Club. 
We  have  heard  the  wish  very  generally  expressed  that  he  will  visit  the 
Washington  Course  again,  and  that  it  would  be  '•  a  consummation  de- 


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voutly  to  be  wished,"  that  the  rising  generation  on  the  Turf  should 
learn,  from  his  good  example,  this  valuable  and  becoming  lesson,  "  win 
or  lose,"  always  do  so  with  equanimity. 

It  is  the  opinion  of  many  that  the  annual  ball  was  fuliy  equal,  if  it 
did  not  exceed  in  attraction  and  brilliancy  any  that  preceded  it.  The 
rooms  were  well  lighted,  and  the  company  was  seen  to  the  best  advan- 
age.  Every  shade  and  color  of  dress,  blending  harmoniously,  height- 
ened the  tout  ensemble,  and  produced  an  exhilarating  effect.  Youth  and 
maturer  years  were  there,  but  although  mothers  and  daughters  were  to 
be  seen,  standing  or  sitting  side  by  side,  no  age  was  visible,  and  the  idle 
gazer  in  such  a  company  realized  the  idea  of  Burke,  descriptive  of  the 
court  and  one  of  the  brilliant  levees  of  Antoinette,  where  it  is  said,  "  the 
daughter  begins  to  bloom  before  the  mother  is  content  to  fade,"  as  if 
there  was  hardly  room  in  this  wide  world  for  two  generations. 

The  younger  portion  of  the  company  entered  into  the  pastime  of 
dancing  con  amore,  particularly  the  modern  Polka,  which  has  now  been 
regularly  established  in  our  society  as  a  very  favorite  dance,  superseding 
entirely  the  waltz  of  former  years. 

The  Polka,  however,  is  not  really  a  modern  dance: — it  seems  to  us 
only  a  revival  of,  or  return  to 

"  Lavoltas  high,  and  swift  Corantos" — 

a  kind  of  turning  French  dance,  in  which,  as  Florio  says,  "  the  man 
turns  the  woman  round  several  times,  and  then  assists  her  in  making  a 
spring  or  Cabriole." 

I  am  not  going  to  commit  myself  by  expressing  any  opinion  as  to  the 
delicacy  or  beauty  of  these  dances — the  Redowa,  the  Polka,  or  Schot- 
tische,  or  by  whatever  other  name  they  are  known  in  private  society  ;  but 
I  cannot  let  the  opportunity  slip  of  hinting  that  "  Professors  of  Danc- 
ing" in  New  York  are  not  going  to  stop  at  the  Polka,  but  are  about  to 
introduce  a  new  style  of  Cotillion,  called  the  Kiss  Cotillions — the  pecu- 
liar feature  of  which  is,  that  you  kiss  the  lady  as  you  swing  corners. 
The  writer  from  whom  I  derive  my  information,  announces  that  he  is  as 
bachelor,  and,  like  myself,  a  crusty  sort  of  person,  who  never  dances  the 
Polka,  and  does  not  approve  of  it,  but  yet  would  not  mind  waiving  his 
objections  to  the  amusement,  so  far  as  to  "  swing  corners"  now  and  then 
in  a  Cotillion  ! 

There  was,  as  usual  at  this  entertainment,  a  splendid  supper,  which 
included  every  delicacy,  sumptuously  provided  in  every  respect — a 
supper  at  which,  although  no  Grace  was  said,  the  ladies  sat  down  with 
grace.     Like  Milton's  angels, 


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"  Down  they  sat, 
And  to  their  viands  fell,  not  seemingly, 
But  with  the  keen  dispatch  of  real  hunger." 

The  arrangements  on  the  Course  during  the  week  comprehended  the 
usual  regulations  for  the  observance  of  order  and  decorum,  efficiently 
carried  out  by  the  Stewards,  who  harmonized  and  worked  together 
exactly  like  a  band  of  brothers.  Nothing  was  overlooked  that  was 
essential  to  the  high  character  of  the  Club,  the  courtesy  due  to  strang- 
ers, and  the  accommodation  of  the  owners  of  horses  coming  from  a  dis- 
tance. In  respect  to  this  matter,  we  must  give  the  Club  credit  for  hav- 
ing recently  purchased  an  adjoining  farm  to  the  Race  Ground,  which  is 
foithwith  to  be  so  arranged  under  the  direction  of  a  special  Committee 
as  still  further  to  accommodate  that  class  of  our  friends  of  the  Turf,  who 
may  hereafter  think  proper  to  visit  the  Washington  Course  with  stables 
from  distant  States. 

Another  of  those  meetings  has  now  terminated,  the  cheerful  features 
of  which  it  has  been  the  province  of  the  present  Secretary  to  depict  for 
a  long  series  of  years.  He  commenced  his  connection  with  the  South 
Carolina  Jockey  Club  thirty  years  since  ; — Col.  McPherson  was  Presi- 
dent of  the  Club  when  he  first  joined  it,  to  whose  friendship  and  confi- 
dence he  was  indebted  for  his  first  recommendation  as  a  fit  person  to 
fill  the  ofiice  of  Secretary,  which  distinguished  post  he  has  since  had  the 
honor  of  holding  under  each  of  his  successors. 

Sooner  or  later,  however,  all  things  are  at  end,  and  are  no  more  ; — 
his  official  services  close  with  the  present  season.  He  may  now,  with 
the  noble  Moor,  exclaim — 

"  Farewell  ! — Othello's  occupation  's  gone  !" 

In  retiring  into  private  life,  from  the  exciting  scenes  with  whicli  he 
has  been  long  identified, 

"  He  cannot  but  remember  such  things  were 
That  were  most  precious  ;'' 

and  earnestly  hope,  that  the   poet  Moore  spoke  more  in  the  spirit  of  a 
philosopher  than  a.  jmet,  when  he  said — 

"  When  Time,  who  steals  our  years  away, 

Shall  steal  our  pleasures  too, 
Tlie  memory  of  the  Past  will  stay, 

And  half  our  joys  renew." 


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■[So2.—  Wedncsdai/,  Feb.  4.— Jockey  Club  Purse  $1,000.-4  mile 
lieats. — Free  for  nil  ag^es,  weight  for  age. 

W.  II.  Sinkler'sch.  c.  Joff  D.ivis,  4  yrs.,  by  Hero,  out  of  imp.  Mari- 
gold,    

John  Campbell's  ch.  c.  Monte,  4  yrs.,  by  Wagner,  out  of  Cub  by 
Medoc,         .         • 

M.  R  Singleton's  ch.  g  Inspector,  4  yrs.,  by  Boston,  out  of  Sarah 
Washington, 

Time— 1st  heat,  1  m.  42  sec;  2d  heat,  7  m.  44  sec.;  3d  heat,  8  m. 
21  sec. 

Inspector  carried  7  lbs.  overweight. 

The  lime  of  the  second  heat,  the  best  on  record  of  any  second  four 
mile  heat,  run  on  the  Washington  Course. 

In  the  fourth  mile  of  tlic  third  heat,  Monte  sulked,  and  could  not  be 
forced  through  to  the  string. 

Same  day. — Tlutcdiinson  Stakes,  for  three  year  olds. — Woight.s  for 
age.— Subscrijition,  S250  ea(di  ;  $100  ft.;  ^50,  if  declared  before  the 
1st  Nov.,  with  $500  added  by  the  Club  if  two  or  more  start. — 2  mile 
heats. 

W    A.  Stuart's  b  f.  by  Boston,  out  of  imp.  Goldwire  by  Whalebone,         1         1 
J.  K.  Builojk's  cb.  f.  by  Boston,  dam  by  Andrew,     ....        2        2 

The  following  paid  forfeit  or  declared  : 
AV.  Lowndes'  ch.  c  by  Boston,  out  of  Delta  by  Pacific. 
J.  T.  RMd(;litTe's  br.  c.  by  Sovereign,  out  of  Clotilda  by  Priam. 
W.  Hampton's  b.  c.  by  Monarch,  out  of  Maria  West. 
W.  Hampton's  A\.  f.  by  Boston,  out  of  Rowtonella. 
Thos.  D.  Watson's  ch.  f.  by  John  Blunt,  out  of  Canary. 
Ale.x.  Gilliam's  ch.  c.  by  Register,  dam  by  Timoleon. 
Xiirie — 1st  heat,  3  m.  49  sec. ;  2d  heat,  3  m.  49  sec. 
Thursday^  Fib.  5. — Jockey  Club  Purse,  $750. — 3   niile  heats. — Con- 
ditions as  before. 

John  Harrison's  b.  h.  Nat  Pope,  4  yrs.,  by  Sovereign,  out  of  IMary 

EUzabelh, 

P.  S.  Fowler's  ch  f.  Thetn,  4  yrs  .  by  imp  Priam,  out  of  Gamma  by 

Pacific, • 

John  Campbell's  br  c  I)iamond,  3  yrs.,  by  Wagner,  out  of  Bob  Let- 
cher's dam,  ......... 

W.  II.  Sinkler's  ch  g.  BleuforJ,  4  yrs  ,  by  Wagner,  out  of  Symmetry, 

M.  R.  Singleton's  br.  g.  Capt.  Minor,  6  yrs  ,  by  Monarch,  dam  by 

Glaucus, 

Time — 1st  heat,  5  m.  43  sec;  2d  heat,  5  m.  49  sec;  3d  heat,  5  m, 
50^  sec. 

Capt.  Minor  broke  down. 
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Same  day. — Hutchinson  Sweepstakes,  for  2  year  olds. — Mile  lieats. — 
Subscription,  $250  each;  SoO  if  declared  before  the  1st  Nov. ;  f5lOO  af- 
ter that  time.     The  Club  to  add  -$200,  if  two  or  more  start. 

W.  A.  Stuart's  b.  f.  by  Glencoe,  dam  by  Priam,  received  forfeit  from 
J.  K.  Bullock's  g.  f.  by  Boston,  dam  by  Mucklejohn. 

Friday,  Feb.  6.— Jockey  Club  Purse,  |i500.— 2  mile  heats.— Condi- 
tions as  before. 

P.  S.  Fowler's  cb.  f.  Elizabeth  McNary,  4  yrs  ,  by  Ambassador,  out 

of  Princess  Anne  by  Leviathan, 11 

M.  R.  Singleton's  b.  f.  Mirth,  4  yrs.,  by  Wagner,  out  of  dam  of  Capt. 

Minor,         .         , 3         2 

John  Harrison's  b   g.  Samuel  Chilton,  5  yrs.,  by  imp.  Skylark,  dam 

by  imp.  Priam, 2        dis. 

Jos.  Hey  ward's  g.  g.  Col.  Pride,  6  yrs.,  by  Glencoe,  dam  by  Plcuipo,        dr. 

Time — 1st  heat,  3  m.  52-J-  sec. ;  2d  heat,  3  m.  47  sec. 

Same  day. — Hutchinson  Stakes,  for  3  years  old. — Weio'hts  as  before. 
Subscription,  8250  each;  llOO  ft.;  850  if  declared  before  1st  Nov., 
with  $200  added  by  the  Club,  it  two  or  more  start. — Mile  heats. 

W.  A.  Stuart's  br.  f.  by  Boston,  dam  imp.  by  Lotterj^,  received  forfeit 
from  the  following: 

J.  K.  Bullock's  ch.  f.  by  Boston,  dam  by  Andrew. 

J.  T.  Radcliffe's  br.  c.  by  Sovereign,  out  of  Clotilde. 

W,  Hampton's  ch.  c.  by  Monarch,  out  of  imp'd  Emily. 

John  Harrison's  ch.  f.  by  Wagner,  out  of  Julia  Davie. 

C,  and  N.  Green's  br.  f.  by  Baillie  Peyton. 

Saturday,  Feb.  7. — Handicap  Purse,  $600. — 3  mile  heats. 

W.  H.  Sinklcr's  ch.  c.  Jeff  Davis,  4  yrs.,  102  lbs  ,     .        .        .        .211 
John  Harrison's  b.  c.  Nat  Pope,  4  yr.«.,  102  lbs.,       .        .        .         .542 

"W.  R.  Singleton's  b.  f.  Mirth,  4  yrs.,  90  lbs 4      5      3 

P.  S.  Fowler's  ch   f.  Elizabeth  McNary,  4  yrs.,  90  lbs 12     dr. 

W.  A.  Stuart's  b.  f.  Gold  Pin,  3  yrs  ,  87  lbs, 3      3     dr. 

Time — 1st  heat,  5  m  44.  sec. ;  2d  heat,  5  m.  45  sec. ;  3d  heat,  5  m. 
50  sec. 

Same  day — Second  Race. — Jockey  Club  Purse,  8600. — Post  entrance. 
Single  heat  of  3  miles. — Weight  for  age. 

W.  A.  Stuart's  br.  f.  Nina,  3  yrs.,  by  Boston,  dam  by  Lottery,        .  1 

John   Campbell's  ch.  g.  Andy  Rogers,  3  yrs.,  by  "Wagner,  out  of 

Sally  Bertrand, 2 

Time — 5  m.  44  sec. 

The  Hutchinson  Stakes,  hitherto  opened  for  two  year  olds,  (a  race  of 
mile  heats  to  be  run  on  the  Thursday  of  the  Pia(  e  week,)  were,  this  year, 
abolished.  The  Sweepstakes  for  3  year  olds  on  the  Wednesday  and 
Friday,  ordered  to  be  continued  as  before. 

1853. —  Wednesday,  Feb.  2. — Jockey  Ckib  Purse,  $1,000. — 4  milo 


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heats. — Fi'ee  for  all  ages. — Aged  horses  126  lbs.;  6  yrs.,  120;  5  yrs., 
112  ;  4  yrs.,  102  ;  3  yrs.,  90  ;  2  yrs.,  a  feather  ;  mares,  fillies,  and  geld- 
ings alloweil  3  lbs. 

W.  H.  Sinkler's  ch   h.  JcfF  Davis,  5  yrs.,  by  Hero,  out  of  imp.  Ma- 
rigold,   11 

C.  &  N.  Green's  b.  g.  Lawson,  4  yrs  ,  by  Wagner,  out  of  the  dam  of 

Minstrel, .32 

T.  B  Goldsby's  cb.  f.  Isnbella,  4  yrs.,  by  Boston,  dam  by  Eclipse,  .         2        3 
Time — 1st  heat,  7  m.  45  sec. ;  2d  heat,  7  in.  56  sec. 
Scrme  day. — Hutchinson   Stakes,   for  3   year  olds. — Weiglits   as   be- 
fore.— Subscription,  $250  each  ;  $100  ft.;  $50  if  declared  before  the  1st 
of  Nov.,  with  $500  added   by  the  Club,  if  tv\'o  or  more  start. — 2  mile 
heats. 

Thos.  Puryear's  cb.  c   by  Glencoe,  out  of  Castanet,         ...         1         1 
C.  A.  Hamilton's  ch.  c  by  Tempest,  out  of  Lucy  Wood,  ...        2        2 
P.  S.  Fowler's  b.  c.  by  Sovereign,  out  of  Celerity,    ....         3        3 
Jas.  Tally's  ch   c.  by  Boston,  out  of  Barbara  Allen,      ...         4        dr. 
T.  B.  Goldsby's  ch.  f.  by  Boston,  dam  by  Glencoe,   ....        dis. 

M,  R.  Singleton's  ch.f.  by  Hero,  dam  by  Rowton,  paid  forfeit. 

W.  A.  Stuart's  b.  f.  by  Glencoe,  dam  by  Tranby,  paid  forfeit. 

0.  Towle's  c!i.  g.  by  imp'd  Emuc,  out  of  Linnet,  paid  forfeit. 

N.  B.  Young's  b.  c.  by  Childe  Harold,  out  of  Atalanta,  paid  forfeit. 

W.  H.  Sinkler's  ch.  f.  by  Shark,  out  of  imp'd  Marigold,  paid  forfeit. 

W.  A.  Stuart's  b.  f.  by  Glencoe,  dain  by  Priam,  declared. 

Thos.  D.  Watson's  ch.f.  by  Herald,  out  of  Marchioness,  declared. 

S.  J.  Carter's  br.  f.  by  Sovereign,  dam  by  Stockholder,  declared. 
«•   Jas.  Tally's  br.  c.  l)y  Pamunkey,  out  of  Sarah  Washington,  declared. 

T.B.  Goldsby's  b.  f  by  Sovereign,  dam  by  Stockholder,  declared. 

Time — 1st  heat,  3  m.  44  sec. ;  2d  heat,  3  m.  46  sec. 

Thursdrnj,  Feb.  3. — Jockey  Club  Purse,  $750. — 3  mile  heats. — Con- 
ditions as  before. 

C.  &  N.  Green's  b.  e.  Escape,  3  yrs.,  by  Pamunkey,  out  of  Sarah 

Washington,  .         .  ....         1         1 

A.  J.  Minor's  ch.  m.  Elizabeth  WcNary,  5  yrs.,  by  Ambassador,  out 

of  Princess  Anno 2        dis. 

Time — 1st  heat,  5  in.  41  sec;  2d  heat,  6  m.  3  sec. 
Same  day — Second  Race. — Jockey  Club  Purse,  $150. — 2  mile  heats. 
Conditions  as  before. 

T.  G.  Bacon's  b.  f.  Nina,  4  yrs.,  by  Boston,  out  of  an  imja'd  mare 

by  Lottery, 11 

■J.  Harrison's  b   f.,  4  yrs.,  by  Boston,  Jr  ,  dam  by  Andrew,       ..42 

W.  A.  Stuart's  ch.  f.  by  Glencoe,  out  of  Maryentile,        ...        2        3 

W.  H.  Sinkler's  c.  g.  Bleuford,  5.  yrs  ,  by  Wagner,  out  of  Symme- 
try,    .        ,        ; 3        4 

C.  &  N.  Green's  b.  m.  Mary  Owen,  5  yrs.,  by  Second  Priam,  out  of 

Last  Scrap, dis. 


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Time — 1st  lieat,  3  m.  57  sef. ;  2d  heat,  3  m.  50  sec;. 
Friday^  Ft^h.  4. — Jo(-key  Club  Purse,  ^'500. — 2   mile  beats. — Coivli- 
tious  as  before. 


L.  Lovell's  b.  c.  Gamble,  3  yrs  ,  by  Sovereign,  out  of  Celerity,       .311 
T    B    Goldsby's  ch   f.  Betty  King,  3  jts  ,  by  Boston,  dam  by  imp. 

Glencoo, 422 

J.  Han-Lson's  b.  c  Washington,  3  yrs.,  by  Childe  Harold,  out  of  Ata- 

lanta,      ...  ....  .133 

W.  H.  Sinkler's  ch.  g.  Lot,  6  yrs  ,  by  Hero,  out  of  Phenomenon,     .     2     ruled  out. 
C.  &  N.  Green's  b.   g    Lawson,  4  yrs.,  by  Wagner,   out  of  dam  of 

Minstrel, dis. 

Time — 1st  heat,  3  m.  46  sec;  2d  heat,  3  m.  43  se(;. ;  3d  heat,  3  m. 
4*7  sec. 

The  rider  of  Lot  was  ruled  out,  having  come  in,  in  2d  heat,  short  of 
weio'ht.  The  Jockey  was  weighed  with  liis  jacket,  and  shot  weighed  in 
his  lap.  In  taking  up  his  jacket,  he  accidentally  omitted  to  take  up 
alsf)  the  shot. 

Same  day. — Hutcliinson  Stakes,  for  3  year  old;?.— Mile  heats.— Sub- 
scription f;250;  8100  ft.;  |50  if  declared  before  the  1st  Nov.— Closed 
1st  May. — The  Club  to  add  -^200,  if  two  or  more  start. 

C.  A.  Hamilton's  ch.  c.  by  Tempest,  out  of  Lucy  Wood,  . 
.las.  Tally's  ch.  c.  by  Boston,  out  of  Barbara  Allen, 
AV  A   Stuart's  b.  f.  by  Glencoe,  dam  by  Priam, 
W.  T   Pdves'  be.  by  Monarch,  dam  by  Emancipation,    . 

P.  S.  Fowler's  eh.  f.  by  impM  Ainderby,  out  of  Prince.ss  Anne,  declared. 

.James  Talley's  br.  c.  by  Pamunkey,  out  of  Sarah  Wa.sliington,  de- 
clared. 

T.  B.  (ioldsby's  ch.  g.  by  Rough  and  Ready,  dam  by  imp'd  Riddles- 
worrh,  declared. 

Thos.  Puryear's  ch.  c.  by  Glencoe,  out.  of  Castanet,  paid  forfeit. 

N.  B.Young's  b.  g.  by  Boston,  dam  by  Monarch,  paid  forfeit. 

T.  B.  Goldsby's  ch.  f.  by  imp'd  Belshazzar,  dam  by  Barefoot,  jiaid 
forfeit. 

Time — 1st  heat,  1  m.  51  sec. ;  2d  lieat,  1  m.  50  sec. ;  3d  heat,  1  ra. 
53  sec. 

Saturday,  Feb.  5. — Handicap  Purse,  !5;600. — 3  mile  Iieats. 

T.  Puryear's  ch  c.  Highlander,  by  Glencoe,  3  yrs.,  90  lbs  ,      .        .3      1      1 
W.  H.  Sinkler's  ch.  h.  Jeff  Davis,  5  yrs.,  112  lbs  ,  .        .12     2 

T.  B.  Goldsby's  ch.  f.  Isabella,  by  Boston,  4  yrs.,  90  lbs.,        .         .23      dr. 

Time — 1st  heat,  5  m.  54  sec;  2d  heat,  5  m.  48  sec. ;  3d  heat,  5  m. 
65  sec. 


3  1 

2  3 

1  2 

dis. 


134 

Same  dajf — Second  Race. — Jockey  Club  Purse,  8300. — Single  heat 
3  miles. — Weicht  for  age. 

C.  ct  X.  Green's  b.  c.  Escape,  3  yr3  , 1 

W.  H.  Sinklci's  c  g.  Lot,  6  yrs. 2 

T.  G.  Bacon's  b.  f  Nina,  4  yrs., 3 

J.  Harrison's  b.  f.  Great  "Western,  4  yrs., bol'd. 

Time — 5  m.  52  sec. 

At  one  of  the  meetings,  during  the  week,  Col.  Ashe,  the  Vice  Presi- 
dent of  the  Club,  took  a  proper  opportunity  to  remind  the  members  that 
Death  had  recently  removed  from  their  midst  one  who  had  long  been 
associated  with  them.  With  much  feeling  he  alluded  to  the  past  con- 
nection of  the  late  Col.  RicriARD  Singleton  with  the  Club,  and  recalled 
to  notice  the  many  and  valuable  contributions  he  had  made  for  the  pro- 
motion of  its  objects. 

Impressed  with  these  sentiments,  he  offered  tlie  following  Resolutions, 
which  were  unanimously  adopted  : 

Hesolved,  That  the  name  of  the  late  Col.  Richard  Singleton  be  in- 
scribed upon  a  blank  page  of  the  Minute  Book  of  this  Club. 

Rcaolvcd^  That  a  copy  of  these  proceedings  be  forwarded  to  his  near- 
est male  representative. 

1854. —  Wednesday,  Feb.  1. — Jockey  Club  Purse,  |1,000. — 4  mile 
heats. — Free  for  all  ages. — Weight  for  age.     ' 

John  Belcher's  b.  ra.  Nina,  5  yrs.,  by  Boston,  dam  imported,  by  Lot- 
tery, w:dked  over. 

Same  day. — Hutchinson  Stakes,  for  3  year  olds. — Weight  for  age. — 
Subscription  $250  ;  $100  forfeit ;  %50  if  declared  before  the  1st  Nov. 
Closed  1st  May.  The  Club  to  add  $500,  if  two  or  more  start. — 2  mile 
heats. 

J.  Harrison's  b.  c.  Griff  Edmondston,  out  of  Mary  Elizabeth,  .  1  1 
M.  R.  Singleton's  eh.  f.  Ellen  Evans,  by  Hero  out  of  Atalanta,  .  2  2 
C   &  N.  Green's  g.  c.  Granite,  by  Polydore,  out  of  Andrewetta,       .         3        dr. 

J.  Belchers  ch.  c.  by  Alamode,  dam  by  Sir  Charles,  paid  forfeit. 

J.  Belcher's  ch.  f,  by  Ilarold,  dam  imp'd,  paid  forfeit. 

S.  J.  Carter's  b.  f.  by  Epsilon,  out  of  Nanny  Kellum,  paid  forfeit. 

Hill  and  Myers'  ch,  f.  by  Boston,  out  of  Minerva  Anderson,  paid  for- 
feit. 

J.  Campbell's  f.  by  Glencoe,  out  of  Cub,  paid  forfeit. 

J.  Campbell's  c.  by  Altof,  out  of  a  Tranby  mare,  paid  forfeit. 

Thos.  D.  Watson's  b.  f.  by  Zinganee.  dam  by  Portsmouth,  declared. 

F.  G.  Murpliy  &.Co's  b.  c.  by  Boston,  out  of  Tranby  Anna,  declared. 

Time — 1st  heat,  3  m.  42  sec, ;  2d  heat.  3  m.  45  sec. 


135 

Tlie  Altof  colt  got  away  before  the  signal  for  starting,  and  went  round 
jive  times  and  three-quarters  before  liis  rider  could  pull  him  up. 

Thursday,  Feb.  2.— Jockey  Club  Purse,  -$750. — 3  mile  heats. — 
Conditions  as  before, 

John  Belcher's  b.  h.  Red  Eye^  7  yrs.,  by  Boston,  out  of  Lucy  Long  by 
Pri.nn,  ivalkcd  over. 

Scinie  day — Second  Race. — Jockey  Club  Pui'se,  -$150. — 2  mile  heats. 

Conditions  as  before. 

J.  Mazyck's  b.  f.  Mary  Brown,  4  yrs.,  by  Champion,  dam  by  Mon- 
arch,    2      11 

J.  B    Moore's  b.  f ,  4  yrs.,  by  Equinox, 12      2 

J.  Harrison's  b.  f.  Shadow,  4  yrs.,  by  Boston,  Jr.,  dam  by  Eclipse,  3      dis. 

Time — 1st  heat,  3  m.  oO  .se<'. ;  2d  heat,  3  m.  52  sec;  3d  iieat,  4  m. 
Friday,  Ftb.  3.— Jockey  Club  Purse,  |500.— 2  mile  heats.— Condi- 
tions as  l)eforo. 

0.  P.  Hare's  ch.  f.  Florence,  4  yrs  ,  by  Harold,  darn  by  Rowton, 
IM.R.  Singleton's  ch.  g  John  Hopkins,  3  yrs.,  by  Rowton,  dam  by 

Ulaucus,     ......  .         . 

G.  W.  Dillehiinl's  b.  f  Madonna,  3  yrs.,  by  imp.  Yorkshire,  out  of 

Magnolia,   .......... 

J.  Harrison's  ih.   m.  Maid  of  Edgecombe,  by  Boston,  Jr  ,  dam  by 

Andrew, . 

Time — 1st  heat,  3  m.  49  sec. ;  2d  heat,  3  m.  51^  sec 

Same   day. — Hutchinson  Stakes,  for  3  year  olds. — Weights  as  before, 

1  niile  heats. — Subsciiption  $250 ;    ^100  ft.;  850  if  declared  hefoi'e  the 

1st  Nov.     Closed  1st  May. 

S.  J.  Carter's  b.  f  Selina,  by  Epsilon,  out  of  Beta,  ...         1         1 

J    Harrison's  b   c.  GriflF  Kdmonston,  by  Harold,       .,,.22 
J.  Campbell's  b  e   by  Altoff,  dam  by  Tranby,  ....        3        dis. 

\V.  R.  Singleton's  ch,  g.  John  Hopkins,  by  Boston,  paid  forfeit. 
J.  Belcher's  ch,  c  by  Alainode,  dam  by  Sir  Charles,  [)aid  forfeit, 
J,  Belcher's?  ;d).  f.  by  Harold,  dam  imp'd,  }Kiid  forfeit. 
J.  Campbell's  f.  by  Glencoe,  out  of  Cub.  paid  foifeit. 
C.  &  N.  Green's  g.  c.  Granite,  by  Polydore,  out  of  Andrewetta,  paid 
forfeit. 

S.  J.  Carter's  ch.  f.  by  Amba.ssador,  out  of  Kate  King,  declared, 
T.  1).  Watson's  b.  f.  by  Zinganee,  dam  by  Portsmouth,  declared. 
F.  G.  Murphy  &  Co's  b,  c  by  Boston,  out  of  Tranby  Anna,  dedared. 
Time — 1st  heat,  1  m,  48  sec  ;  2d  heat,  1  m.  52  sue 
Saturday,  Feb.  4. — Handicap  Purse,  ^600. — 3  mile  heats. 

John  Belcher's  b.  m.  Nina,  5  yrs  ,  109  lbs  , 1         1 

M  R.  Singleton's  ch  f.  Ellen  Evans,  3  yrs.,  a  feather,     ...         2        2 
J.  Harrison's  ch.  m.  Maid  of  Edgecombe,  5  yrs  ,  99  lbs  ,  .        .        3        dis. 

Time — 1st  heat,  5  m,  40  sec. ;  2d  heat,  5  m,  43  sec. 


1 

1 

3 

2 

2 

3 

4 

dis. 

136 

In  the  last  heat,  Maid  of  Edgecombe  broke  down,  and  Nina  came  in 
lame. 

Same  day — Second  Race. — Club  Purse,  S300 — Single  heat  of  3  miles, 

weights  for  age. 

M.  R.  Singleton's  ch   g.  John  Hopkins,  3  yrs  ,  ....  1 

0.  P.  Hare's  ch.  f.  Florence,  4  yrs., 2 

J.  Belcher's  b.  h.  Red  Eye,  7  yrs., dis. 

Time — 6  m.  3  sec. 

Red  Eye  sulked  soon  after  starting,  and  refused  to  go.  John  Hopkins 
came  out  an  easy  winner. 

Same  day — Match  Race. — 2  mile  heats. 

J.  E.  Edings'  b.  f.  Mary  Brown, 11 

J.  B.  Moore's  ch.  f  by  Hero, 2        2 

Time — 1st  heat,  3  m.  54  sec;  2d  heat,  3  m.  h\\  sec. 

Henry  Gourdin,  Esq.,  after  speaking  in  very  appropriate  terms  of  the 
recent  death  of  Mr.  Wm.  Sinkler,  regretting  the  loss  of  his  example  and 
valuable  counsel  to  the  Club,  offered  (as  a  tribute  of  respect  to  his  mem- 
ory) the  following  resolutions,  which,  being  seconded  by  Col.  Ashe,  were 
unanimously  adopted : 

Resolved,  That  the  name  of  the  late  Wm.  Sinkler  be  inscribed  upon 
a  blank  page  of  the  Minute  Book  of  this  Club. 

Resolved,  That  a  copy  of  the  above  Resolution  be  sent  to  the  family 
of  the  deceased. 

In  addition  to  the  Hutchinson  Stakes,  for  3  year  olds,  to  be  run  on 
the  Wednesday  and  Friday  as  usual,  the  Club  opened  another  Stakes,  to 
be  called  "  The  South  Carolina  Sioeepstakes,^''  fos  2  year  olds,  to  be  run 
or  in  1856,  on  the  Thursday  of  the  regular  Race  week,  instead  of  the 
Second  Race  hitherto  appointed  to  be  run  on  that  day.  Subscription 
$200 — play  or  pay — subject  to  the  Rules  of  the  Club,  but  to  carry  80 
lbs. ;  fillies  and  geldings  to  be  allowed  3  lbs. — 2  mile  heats. — The  nom- 
inations to  be  confined  to  residents  of  South  Carolina,  and  to  be  made 
and  closed  by  the  1st  May  next,  and  the  horses  to  be  owned  in  South 
Carolina.     If  three  or  more  start,  the  Club  to  add  8500. 

1855. —  Wednesday,  Feb.  7. — Jockey  Club  Purse,  $1,000. — Weight 

for  age. 

R.  B.  Cheatham's  b.  c.  Grifif  Edmondson,  by  Childe  Harold,  out  of 

Nat  Pope's  dam,  4  yrs., 3      11 

John  Belcher's  b.  m.  Die  Clapperton,  by  Boston,  out  of  Bellamira 

by  imp.  Monarch,  6  yrs., 12     2 

W.  T   Cheatham's  ch.  h.  Highlander,  by  imp.  Glencoe,  out  of  Cas- 
tanet by  imp.  Monarch,  5  yrs.,  .         .         .         .        .         .2     dis. 

John  W.  Mazyck's  ch.  h.  Jeflf  Davis,  by  Hero,  out  of  imp    Mari- 
gold, 7  yrs. 4     dis. 


1 

1 

3 

2 

2 

dis. 

4 

dis. 

137 

"  Time — 1st  heat,  7  m.  52  sec;  2(1  heat,  7  m.  46  sec;  3d  heat,  7  m. 
56  sec 

Same  day. — Ilutchinson  Stakes,  for  3  year  olds. — Weio-hts  as  above. 
Nineteen  subscribers,  at  $250  each;  $100  ft.;  $50  if  declared  before 
the  1st  of  Nov.,  with  $500  added  by  the  Club  if  two  or  more  start. 
Amount  of  the  Stakes,  $2,650. — 2  mile  heats. 

Col.  T.  B.  Goldsby's  br.  c.  Brown  Dick,  by  imp.  Margrave,  out  of 

Fanny  King  by  imp.  Glencoe,    ..... 
John  Campbell's  f.  by  Wagner,  dam  by  imp.  Tranby, 
John  Belcher's  b.  c.  by  Childe  Harold,  dam  by  imp.  Priam,    . 
C.  A.  Hamilton's  b   c.  by  Tempest,  out  of  Anne  Barrow, 

Time — 1st  heat,  3  m.  42  sec  ;  3  m.  46  sec 

W.  H.  B.  Richardson's  b.  c  by  Shark,  out  of  Anna  Moore,  declared. 

O.  P.  Hare's  b.  c  by  Zinganee,  dam  by  Rowton,  declared. 

O.  Towles'  b.  c  by  Sovereign,  dam  by  Autocrat,  declared. 

R.  C.  Myers'  ch.  f.  by  Mariner,  out  of  Patsey  Anthony,  declared. 

T.  B.  Goldsby's  ch.  c.  by  imp.  Margrave,  dam  by  Belshazzar,  declared. 

F.  G.  Murphy  &  Go's  ch.  g.  Harper,  by  Glencoe,  declared. 

F.  G.  Murphy  &  Go's  ch.  f.  by  Glencoe,  out  of  Motto,  declared. 

J.  G.  Guignard's  b.  g.  by  Edisto,  dam  by  Hybiscus,  paid  forfeit. 

M.  C.  Nisbett's  f.  by  Sovereign,  out  of  Lady  of  Lyons,  paid  forfeit. 

John  Clarke's  br.  f.  l)y  Black  Prince,  out  of  Swallow,  paid  forfeit. 

W.  W.  Woodfolk's  b.  c  Invincible,  by  Sovereign,  paid  forfeit. 

Galvin  Green's  br.  f.  by  Ainderby,  out  of  Princess  Anne,  paid  forfeit. 

W,  J.  Minor's  ch.  c  Ricardo  by  Voucher,  out  of  Norma,  paid  forfeit. 

W.  J.  Minor's  ch.  c  LeRoi  by  Belshazzar,  out  of  Veracity,  paid  forfeit. 

John  Campbell's  f.  by  Glencoe,  out  of  Cub,  paid  forfeit. 

J.  Belcher's  colt  by  Childe  Harold  was  ruled  out  in  the  second  heat, 
in  consequence  of  foul  riding. 

Thursday,  Feb.  8. — Jockey  Club  Purse,  8750,  for  all  ages,  weights  as 
above. — 3  mile  heats. 

T.  B.  Goldsby's  br.  c.  Brown  Dick,  pedigree  above,  3  yrs.,         .         .211 
John  Campbell's  b.  m.  Mary  Taylor^  by  imp.  Sovereign,  out  of  Clara 

Howard  by  imp.  Barefoot,  5  yrs.,       .         .         .         .         .     1      2     dr. 
J.  B.  Moore's  b.  m.  by  Equinox,  out  of  an  imp.  mare,  5  yrs  ,   .         .     3    dr. 
Thomas  Puryear's  ch.  c.  Charley  Ball,  by  Wagner,  out  of  Magnolia, 

by  imp.  Glencoe,  3  yrs., •         .     dr. 

John  W.  Mazyck's  ch.  f.  Patsey  O'Rielly,  by  Shark,  out  of  Filho- 

da-Puta,  4  yrs dr. 

Time — 1st  heat,  5  m.  43  sec. ;  2d  heat,  5  m.  42  sec 
Same  day. — Jockey  Club  Purse,  $150,  for  all  ages,  weights  as  above. 
2  mile  heats. 


138 

J.  B.  Moore's  ch.  c.  Henry,  by  imp.  Gloncoe,  out  of  Museiora  by 

Modoc,  3  yrs , .11 

John  Harrison's  cb.  c.  by  imp.  Monarch,  out  of  Mary  Elizabeth,  3 

yrs., 2         2 

John  Belcher's  br.  c.  Voltaire,  by  Epsilon,  out  of  imp.  Nanny  Kill- 

ura,  4  yrs., 3        3 

Time — 1st  licat,  3  m.  50  sec;  2l1  lieat.  3  ra,  56  sec. 

Friday,  Fth.  9. — Jockey  Club  Purse,  '$500, — Foi'  all  ages,  weights  for 

age. — 2  mile  heats. 

T.  G.  Moore's  br.  m.  Maid  of  Orleans,  by  Bethune,  out  of  Alice  Car- 

neal  by  imp.  Sarpedou,  5  yrs.,     .         .  ...     3      I      1 

W.  T.  Cheatham's  g.  c.  Little  Artiiur,  by  imp.  Glenooc,  out  of  Blue 

Bonnets,  3  yrs., 232 

T.  B.  Goldsby's  ch.  g.  by  Rough  and  Ready,  out  of  Damnington 

m;uc,  4  yrs., •...12     dis. 

J.  AV.  Mazyck's  ch.  f  Patscy  O'Rielly,  by  Shark,  out  of  Filho-da- 

Puta,  4  yrs., dis. 

Time— 1st  heat,  3  m.  46  sec.;  2cl  heat,  3  m.  48  sec;  3d  heat,  3  m. 
53  sec. 

Same  darj. — Hutchinson  Stakes,  for  3  3'ear  olds, — Weights  as  before, 
Twelve  subscribers,  at  §250  cacli ;  8IOO  ft.;  $50  declared;  with  $200 
added  by  tlie  Club  if  two  or  more  start.  Tliese  Stakes  amounted  to 
$1,750.— Mile  heats. 

W.  W.  Woodfolk's  b.  c.  Invincible,  by  imp.  Sovereign,  dam  by  Stock- 
holder,          11 

J.  M.Harrington's  ch  f.  by  imp.  Margrave,  out  of  Jack  Hays'  dam 

by  Monmouth  Eclipse, 3        2 

J.  Campbell's  ch.  f.  by  imp  Glencoc,  out  of  Cub,  ths  dam  of  Monte,         2        3 

C.  Green's  br.  f.  by  imp.  Ainderby,  out  of  Princess  Anne,  paid  forfeit. 

C.  A.  Hamilton's  b.  f.  by  imp.  Sovereign,  dam  by  imp.  Leviathan,  paid 
forfeit. 

T.  B.  GoUlsby's  ch.  c.  by  imp.  Glencoe,  out  of  Paralce,  by  imp.  Levia- 
than, paid  forfeit. 

W.  J.  Minor's  ch.  c.  Ricardo,  by  Voucher,  out  of  Norma  by  Longwaist, 
she  out  of  imp.  Novelty,  paid  forfeit. 

W.  J.  Minor's  ch.c.  by  imp.  Belshazzar,  out  of  imp.  Britannia,  paid 
forfeit. 

J.  Campbell's  ch.f.  by  Wagner,  dam  by  imp.  Tranby,  paid  forfeit, 

R.  C.  Myers'  ch.  f.  by  Mariner,  out  of  Patsey  Anthony,  by  imp.  Priam, 
declared. 

F.  G.  Murphy  &  Go's  ch.  g.  Harper,  by  imp.  Glencoe,  dam  by  imp. 
Trustee,  declared. 

F.  G.  Murphy  &  Go's  ch.  f.  by  imp.  Glencoe,  out  of  Motto  by  imp. 
Bai'efoot,  declared. 


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Time — 1st  beat,  1  m.  53  sec;  2d  heat,  1  m.  52  sec. 
Saturday,  Feb.  10.— Jockey  Club  (Handicap)  Purse,  $600.— For  all 
ages. — 3  mile  heats. 

T.  B.  Goldsby'sbr.  c.  Brown  Dick,  by  imp.  Margrave,  out  of  Fanny 

King,  by  imp.  Glencoe,  3  yrs  ,  90  lbs ,         .         .        .        .         I         1 

John  Campbell's  b.  m.  Mary  Tnylor,  by  imp.  Sovereign,  out  of  Clara 

Howard  by  imp.  Barefoot,  5  yrs,  99  lbs  ,     ....        2        2 

W.  T.  Cheatham's  eh.  li.  Highlander,  by  imp.  Glencoe,  out  of  Cas- 
tanet by  imp.  Monarch,  5  yrs  ,  102  lbs ,      ....        4        3 

J.  B.  Moore's  b.  m  by  Equinox,  out  of  an  imp.  mare,  5  yrs  ,  95  lbs.,        3        dis. 

J.  TV.  Mazyck's  eh.  f.  Patsey  O'Rielly,  by  Shark,  out  of  Filho-da- 

Puta,  4  yrs  ,  fcitber, 5        dis. 

Time — 1st  heat,  5  m.  42  se(!. ;  2d  heat,  5  m.  40  sec. 

Same  day. — Jockey  Club  Purse,  ^300. — For  all  ages,  post  entrance, 

Club  weights. — 3  mile  heats. 

"W.  T.  Cheatham's  gr.  c.  Little  Arthur,  pedigree  above,  3  yrs.,  .  1 
T.  G.  Moore's  ch.  c.  Ilsnrj',  by  imp.  Glencoe,  out  of  Musedorn,  by 

Mednc,  3  yrs., 2 

J.  M.  Harrington's  ch.  f.  by  imp.  Margrave,  out  of  Jack  Haj's'  dam 

by  Monmouth  Eclipse,  3  yrs  , 3 

N.  B.  Young's  ch.  f.  Ellen  Evans,  by  Hero,  out  of  Atalanta,  4  yrs ,  4 

Time — 5  m.  48|-  sec. 

Same  day. — Mateh  for . — 1  mile. 

Mr.  Alston's  Shadow, 1 

J.  M.  Craton's  Frank  Forester, 2 

Time — 1  m.  53  sec. 

1856. —  Wednesday,  Feb.  G. — Jockey  Club  Purse,  $1,000. — For  all 
ages,  weight  for  age. — 4  mile  heats. 

John  Belcher's  b.  c  Frank  Allen,  by  Hawkins'  Priam,  dam  by  imp. 

Trustee,  3  yrs 3      11 

Calvin  Green's  ch  c.  Frankfort,  by  imp.  Glencoe,  out  of  Mary  Mor- 
ris, by  Medoc,  4  yrs  , 12      2 

W.  H.  Gibbons'  ch.  f  Nannie  Lewis,  by  imp.  Glencoe,  out  of  Motto 

by  imp.  Barefoot,  4  yrs  , 2     dr. 

Time — 1st  heat,  7  m.  46^  sec. ;  2d  heat,  1  m.  56^  sec. ;  3d  heat,  8  m. 
30  sec. 

Same  day. — Hutchinson  Stakes,  for  3  year  olds. — Weights  as  before. 
Sixteen  subscribers,  at  $250  each  ;  $100  ft.  ;  $50  declared  ;  with  $500 
added  b^-  the  Club  if  two  or  more  start. — 2  mile  heats. 

W.  H.  Gibbons'  eh.  f.  Julia,  by  imp.  Glencoe,  out  of  Sallie  AVard  by 

John  R.  Grymes,         ...  ....     1      2      1 

Thomas  Puryear's  b.  c.  Moidorc,  by  imp.  Yorkshire,  out  of  Pica- 
yune,   2      12 

T.  J.  Goodwin,  Jr's,  ch.  c.  by  Hero,  dam  by  imp.  Rowton,         .        .    3     dis. 


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F.  G.  Murphy  &  Go's  ch.  f.  Kate  Quin,  by  Wagner,  out  of  Sally  Ann 
by  imp.  Trustee,  paid  forfeit. 

F.  G.  Murphy  &  Go's  ch.  f.  Sallie  Lewis,  by  imp.  Glencoe,  out  of  Motto 
by  imp.  Barefoot,  paid  forfeit. 

Wm.  H.  Gibbons'  b.  f.  by  Revenue,  out  of  Emily  Thomas,  by  imp. 
Priam,  paid  forfeit. 

W.  W.  Woodfolk's  b.  c.  Kansas,  by  imp.  Sovereign,  dam  by  imp.  Le- 
viathan, paid  forfeit. 

W.  W.  Woodfolk's  b.  f.  Iodine,  by  imp.  Sovereign,  <lam  by  Stockholder, 
paid  forfeit. 

T,  B.  Goldsby's  b.  c.  by  Rough  and  Ready,  dam  by  imp.  Glencoe,  paid 
forfeit. 

Bacon  &  Jones'  b.  g.  by  imp.  Sovereign,  out  of  Eudora  by  imp.  Priam, 
paid  forfeit, 

Jerome  Edgar's  —  Sam,  by  Wagner,  out  of  Medora  by  Medoc,  paid 
forfeit. 

John  GampbeU's  —  f.  by  Wagner,  out  of  Glorvena,  paid  forfeit. 

John  GampbeU's  —  c.  by  Wagner,  out  of  Sally  Bertrand,  paid  forfeit. 

O.  P.  Hare's  ch.  c.  Pryor,  by  imp.  Glencoe,  out  of  Gipsey  by  Eclipse, 
paid  forfeit. 

John  Belcher's  b.  c.  by  Zinganee,  dam  by  imp.  Priam,  paid  forfeit. 

John  Belcher's  b.  c.  by  Talty-Ho,  dam  by  Paris,  paid  forfeit. 

Time— 1st  heat,  3  ra.  53^  sec;  2d  heat,  3  m.  47|  sec;  3d  heat,  3 
m.  5\^  sec. 

Thursday,  Feb.  1. — Jockey  Club  Purse,  ^750. — For  all  ages,  weights 
for  age. — 3  mile  heats. 

Thos  J.  Woodfolk's  ch.  f.  Floride,  by  Wagner,  out  of  Ann  Watson 

by  imp.  Glencoe,  4  yrs., 1         i 

John  Campbell's  b.c.  Jack  Gamble,  by  Wagner,  dam  by  imp.  Tran- 

by,  3  yrs., 3        2 

H.  C    Caffey's  b.  c.  Gov.  Johnson,  by  imp.  Sovereign,  out  of  Little 

Mistress  by  imp.  Shamrock,  3  yrs., 2        3 

Time — 1st  heat,  6  m.  4  sec  ;  2d  heat,  6  m.  7  sec. 

Same  day. — South  Carolina  Stakes,  for  2  year  olds. — Seven  subscrib- 
ers at  $200  each  ;  p.  p. ;  the  Club  to  add  §500  if  three  or  more  start; 
subject  to  the  rules  of  the  Club;  but  to  carry  80  lbs.,  allowing  3  I'os.  to 
fillies  and  geldings. — Mile  heats. 

C.  T.  Howell's  b.  c.  by  imp    Sovereign,  out  of  iNlillwood  (carried  6 

lbs   extra,)  .....         ....311 

W.  H.  B.  Richardson's  ch.f.  by  Hero,  out  of  Non  Plus,  .         .22 

J.  M.  Howell's  b.  c.  by  imp.  Yorkshire,  out  of  Mary  Elizabeth,      .     1      dis 
P.  G.  Stoney's  ch.  c.  by  Eutaw  Shark,  dam  by  Convention,     .         .     4      dis. 


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Frank  Hampton's  —  c.  by  imp.  Sovereign,  dam  by  imp.  Priam,  paid. 

J.  B.  Moore's  ch.  c.  by  Hug-uenot,  out  of  Ellen  Percy,  paid. 

M.  R.  Singleton's  rh.  f.  by  Revenue,  out  of  Sarah  Washington,  paid. 

Time— 1st  heat,  1  ra.  59  see. ;  2d  heat,  2  m.  -^  sec. ;  3d  heat,  2  m.  H 
sec. 

The  above  Race  was  anticipated  with  raudi  interest — it  was  the  first 
shoivinn  under  a  new  Stakes  Race,  opened  by  the  South  Carolina  Jockey 
Chib  at  their  meeting  in  1854,  This  Stake,  to  be  designated  "The 
Soutli  Carolina  Stakes,"  is  designed  specially  to  foster  and  stimulate  the 
intei'ests  of  the  Turf  among  the  citizens  and  planters  of  the  State,  and 
thereby  encourage  competition  in  homebred  stock. 

Friday^  Feb.  8. — .Jockey  Club  Purse,  -jfoOO. — For  all  ages,  weights  for 
age. — 2  mile  heats. 

H   C.  Caffey's  gr.  f.  Mary  Blueskin,  by  Grey  Eagle,  out  of  Sally 

Morgan,  4  yrs ,  (carried  6  lbs.  overweight,)         .         .  11 

W.  W.  Woodfolk's  b.  c  Invincible,  by  imp.  Sovereign,  dam  by  Stock- 
holder, 4  yrs., 2        2 

John  Belcher's  b   f .  Adelgiza,  by  imp.  Glencoe,  dam  by  Rodolph,  4 

yr.s, -....33 

Calvin  Green's  ch  f.  Linda,  by  imp  Belshazzar,  dam  by  imp.  Glen- 
coe, 3  yrs.,  .........         4        dis. 

Time — 1st  heat,  3  m.  55^  sec;  2d  heat,  3  m.  .53  sec. 

Same  day — Hutchinson  Stakes,  for  3  year  olds. — Weights  as  above. 
Thirteen  subscribei's  at  ^250  each  ;  $100  ft. ;  ^50  declared  ;  with  $20u 
added  by  the  Club  if  two  or  more  start. — Mile  heats. 

John  Belcher's  b  f.  Carolina,  by  Regent,  dam  by  imp.  Flatterer,    .  1  1 

Wm.  H   Gibbon's  ch.  f.  Julia,  pedigree  above.  ....  2  2 

Thomas  Puryeai-'s  b.  c.  Moidore,  pedigree  above,     ....  4  3 

W.  AV.  Woodfolk's  b.  c   Kansas,  pedigree  above,      ....  3  4 

F.  G.  Murphy  &  Co's  ch.  f.  Ivate  Quin,  pedigree  above,  paid  forfeit, 

F,  G.  Murphy  &  Co's  ch.f.  Sally  Lewis,  pedigree  above,  paid  forfeit. 

W.  W,  Woodfolk's  b,  f.  Iodine,  pedigree  above,  paid  forfeit, 

T,  B.  Goldsby's  b,  c.  by  Rough  and  Ready,  dam  by  imp.  Glencoe,  paid 
forfeit. 

Bacon  &  Jones'  b.  g.  by  imp.  Sovereign,  out  of  Eudora,  by  imp.  I-*riam, 
paid  forfeit. 

Jerome  Edgar's  Charles  Morehead,  by  imp.  Glencoe,  dam  by  Sidi  Ha- 
met,  paid  forfeit. 

Otis  H.  Kelton's  ch.  f.  by  imp.  Consternation,  paid  forfeit. 

John  Campbell's  ■ —  f,  by  Wagner,  out  of  Glorvena,  paid  forfeit. 

John  Campbell's  b.  c.  by  Wagner,  out  of  Sally  Bertrand,  paid  forfeit. 

Time — 1st  heat,  1  m.  51  sec. ;  2d  heat,  1  m.  57  sec. 


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Saturday,  Feb.  9. — Jockey  Club  (Handicap)  Purse,  $600. — For  all 
ages. — 3  mile  heats. 

T.  J.  Woolfolk's  eh.  f.  Floride,  by  Wagner,  out  of  Ann  "Watson  by 

imp.  Glencoe,  4  yrs.,  99  lbs  , 4  4     11 

Wm.  H.  Gibbons'  ch.  f.  Kannie  Lewis,  pedigree  above,  4  yrs.,  96 

lbs, 2  14     2 

n.  C.  Caffoy'sg.  f.  Mary  Blueskin,  pedigree  above,  4  yrs,  99  lbs  ,   .12     3    3 

Calvin  Green's  ch.  c.  Frankfort,  pedigree  above,  4  yrs.,  95  lbs.,  (car- 
ried 99  lbs ,) 3  3     2     dr. 

John  Belcher's  b.  f.  Adelgiza,  pedigree  above,  4  yrs.,  95  lbs  ,  .        .  5  dis. 

John  Campbell's  b.  c.  Jack  Gamble,  pedigree  above,  3  yrs  ,  feather,  6  dis. 

Time — 1st  heat,  5  m.  48  sec;  2d  beat,  5  m.  47|-  sec;  3d  beat,  5  m. 
54  sec. ;  4tb  heat,  6  m.  14-  sec. 

Same  day. — Jockey  Club  Purse,  $300. — For  all  ages,  Club  weights, 
post  entrance. — 3  mile  heats. 

Thomas  Piiryear's  cb.  c.  Charley  Ball,  by  Wagner,  out  of  Magnolia 

by  imp.  Glencoe,  4  yrs  , 1 

John  Belcher's  b.  c.  Frank  Allen,  by  Hawkins'  Priam,  dam  by  imp. 

Trustee,  3  yrs  , 2 

AV.  W.  Woodfolk's  b.  c.  Invincible,  pedigree  above,  4  yrs.,       .        .  3 

Time — 5  m.  52  sec. 

Among  many  other  pleasing  incidents  of  the  week,  was  the  presence 
of  Col.  Hnmpton  on  the  Course,  after  an  unavoidable  absence  for  many 
seasons  from  our  meetings,  urgent  private  business  having  called  him 
West  at  the  time  of  our  Races.  It  was  quite  refreshing  to  see  hira 
"  himself  ar/oin,^^  in  the  places  that  knew  him.  He  looked  in  as  "  dp  top  " 
condition  as  the  Highland  Chief,  when  he  exclaimed, 

"  I\'Iy  foot  is  on  my  native  heath, 
And  my  name  's  McGregor  !  " 

As  much  at  home,  as  when,  in  the  olden  time,  he  used  "  to  follow  to  the 
field"  a  Charlotte  Russe,  a  Monarch,  or  a  Bay  Maria,  cum  multis  aliia 
quce  vimc  prcescribere  longum  est.  He  was  hailed  with  a  buzz  of  welcome 
evervwhere  he  went,  and  at  one  time  with  a  loud  acclamation  as  he 
passed  along.  A  more  deservedly  popular  gentleman,  and  more  efficient 
patron  of  the  Turf,  our  State  cannot  boast.  In  addition  to  what  he  has 
done,  in  his  generation,  toward  the  furtherance  of  the  logilimate  sports 
of  the  Turf,  he  has  always  been  very  generous  and  active  in  promoting, 
at  the  same  time,  all  important  agricullural  interests,  appealing  to  the 
intelligent  Planter  and  public  spirited  citizen. 

It  will  be  seen,  by  a  reference  to  the  recent  elections,  (entered  on  ano- 
ther page,)  that  the  South  Carolina  Jockey  Club  has  signified  its  high  es- 


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timate  of  Lis  worth  by  iinanimously  selecting  liim  to  fill  the  office  of 
Vice  rresidcnt,  made  vacant  by  the  nnicli  regretted  ill  liealtli  of  another 
of  its  favorites,  Col.  Ashe.  The  name  of  Col.  Ashe  was  enrolled  on  the 
minutes  of  the  Club  as  an  honorary  member. 

We  regret  to  say,  tlie  indisposition  of  Col.  Ashe  is  so  continued  as  to 
render  it  incumbent  upon  him  to  resign  a  post  he  lias  filled,  for  many 
years,  with  great  usefulness  and  distinction.  He  retires  with  tlie  heart- 
felt sympathy  and  best  wishes,  not  only  of  his  immediate  associates,  but 
of  the  whole  community,  for  his  speedy  restoration  to  health. 


WINNERS  OF  CUPS 

OVER  THE  WASHINGTON  COURSE,  SOUTH  CAROLINA. 


Col.  Wilkinson's  '■'■  Noble ''''  won  a  Tankard,  in  1767,  which  is  now  in 
the  possession  of  "the  Mathews  family."  Other  pieces  of  plate, 
of  rich  manufacture,  grace  the  sideboards  of  the  descendants  of 
those  who  formerly  owned  race  horses  in  the  State,  but  no  record 
when,  and  by  what  horse  won,  has  been  preserved,  so  that  we  can 
exactly  fix  the  date,  and  give  honor  to  whom  honor  is  due. 

1817.    Gen.  Wynn's  br.  f.  Lady  Lightfoot,  4  yrs.,  2  mile 

heats,  Tuesday,  February  25 $500  value. 

1819.  R.  Singleton's  ch.c  Kosciusko,  4  yrs.,  3  mile  heats, 
Saturday,  February  5 $500     " 

1820.  Gen.  Wynn's  b.  f.  Beggar  Girl,  4  yrs.,  3  mile  heats, 
Saturday,  February  5 8500     " 

1821.  Gen.  Wynn's „ch.  c.  Childers,  3  yrs.,  3  mile  heats, 
Saturday,  February  10 8500     " 

1822.  Gen.  Wynn's  ch.  h.   Sir  WiUiam,  5  yrs.,  3  mile 

heats,   Saturday,   February   9 6500     " 

1828.    Col.  Singleton's  ch.  f.  Sally  Taylor,  4  yrs.,  2  mile 

heats,    "Challenge   Cup,"  Tuesday,    February   26,     $500     " 

1837.  A  handsome  Cup  was  presented  by  the  Club  to  Col.  Hampton, 
in  testimony  of  the  high  sense  entertained  of  his  liberality  in 
giving  the  proceeds  of  the  Citizens'  Purse,  $1,000,  which  he  won 
Tuesday,  February  28,  3  mile  heats,  with  his  ch.  f.  Kitty  Heath, 
to  go  towards  some  contemplated  improvements  of  the  Wash- 
ington Course. 


/^•^os.s^  /7S1 A  .5V.  c//Am£^ro//  s.  c. 


•W^^SHIKrOTOKT    COXJPtSE,    CH^A-HIjESTOISr,    S.   C 
[For  description,  vide  Part  V,  pp.  US-U9.] 


PART  V. 


WASHINGTON  COURSE, 


-A.3Sr33 


ANNUAL  REUNIONS  OF  SOUTH  CAROLINA  JOCKEY  CLUB. 


"Multa  et  prsclara." — Horace. 


10 


Having  now  jfinished  the  calendar  of  races  run  under  the  sanction 
of  the  South  Carolina  Jockey  Club,  from  its  formation  to  the  present 
season,  ^e  will  proceed  to  make  a  few  remarks  upon  the  history  of  the 
Club,  and  its  prospects,  by  which  will  be  seen  its  value  and  importance 
to  our  community  in  many  respects,  but  especially  in  a  social  point  of 
view. 

The  South  Carolina  Jockey  Club  is  a  chartered  association,  and  the 
oldest  Jockey  Club  in  the  United  States.  It  numbers  among  its  mem- 
.  bers,  and  has  always  had  on  its  list,  some  of  the  most  distinguished  citi- 
zens of  our  own  and  other  States. 

"  Non  advenre,  neque  passim  collecta  populi  colluvies." 

Honorary  membership  has  been  conferred  on  five  occasions : 

J.  E.  McPherson,  Esq.,  many  years  President  of  the  Club,  was  elected 
an  honorary  member  in  1834  ; 

Richard  Tattersall,  Esq.,  of  Hyde  Park,  London,  in  1837  ; 

Richard  Singleton,  Esq.,  having  been  a  member  of  the  Club  half  a 
century,  was  elected  an  honorary  member  in  1850  ; 

John  B.  Irving,  in  1851,  had  the  same  high  honor  voted  to  him 
having  served  as  Secretary  twenty-five  years ;  and 

Col.  John  S.  Ashe  was  elected  in  1856. 

The  income  of  the  Club  is  very  large,  being  upwards  of  $10,000.  It 
has  had,  at  some  meetings,  as  many  as  two  hundred  members.  The 
annual  subscription  of  each  member  now  is  -140 ;  formerly  it  was  $60. 
In  adrlition  to  the  subscriptions,  it  derives  an  income  from  real  estate, 
bonds,  and  bank  stock. 

From  the  ways  and  means  thus  at  its  disposal,  its  purses  are  not  only 
large,  but  the  Club  is  able  to  extend  a  becoming  degree  of  hospitality  to 
all  respectable  visitors,  and  friends  of  the  Turf,  from  other  States  and 
countries  ;  and  notwithstanding  its  very  heavy  annual  disbursements,  it 
is  so  well  managed,  it  continues  in  an  exceedingly  thriving  condition, 
going  on  "  prospering  and  to  prosper." 

It  may  be  profitable  to  other  Clubs  to  know,  and  therefore  we  state  it 
for  the  benefit  of  all  concerned,  that  the  thriving  condition  of  the  South 
Carolina  Jockey  Club  is  attributable  solely  to  its  abandonment  of  the 
proprietorship  system  ! 


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Believing  that  no  Club  could  ultimately  succeed,  and  preserve  its 
independence,  that  did  not  own  its  own  race  ground,  it  determined,  some 
years  back,  in  1835,  to  purchase  the  Washington  Course  from  the  heirs 
of  the  original  stockholders  of  the  property.  This  measure  was  sug- 
gested by  its  late  valuable  and  zealous  Solicitor,  John  L.  Wilson,  Esq., 
and  perseveringly  advocated  by  its  Secretary,  Dr.  Irving.  The  Course 
was  consequently  purchased  in  183G.  The  good  effects  were  imme- 
diately seen,  by  an  increase  of  its  income  from  the  rent  of  the  booths 
and  the  receipts  at  the  gates. 

Until  the  year  1837,  the  Starting  Post  and  Jockey  Club  Stands  for 
tlie  accommolation  of  visitors,  were  at  the  south. -east  corner  of  the 
Course.  At  a  nueting  of  the  Club,  February  27,  1837,  it  was  proposed 
to  remove  them  to  their  piesent  location — the  north-west  corner  of  the 
Course.  A  committee  was  appointed  for  this  purpose,  and  to  take 
measures,  at  the  same  time,  for  ascertaining  the  exact  length  of  the 
Course,  and  if  short  of  a  mile,  to  have  it  lengthened  and  improved,  and 
to  do  all  such  other  matters  as  promised  to  be  beneficial,  and  promot- 
ive of  the  legitimate  objects  of  th-;  Club. 

The  present  Graml  Stand,  and  other  buildings  for  the  accommodation 
of  ladies,  and  the  invited  guests  of  the  Club,  were  erected  in  1837,  from 
designs  by  Relr.hardt,  an  architect  from  Germany,  a  pu])il  of  the  great 
Shinckle.  The  entrance  to  the  Ladies'  Stand  is  froin  the  rear  of  the  edi- 
fi  -e,  the  la  lies  alighting  fr<>in  their  carriages,  prote.;ted  bv  an  arrhed 
way  from  the  weather,  and  a^jend  a  flight  of  stairs,  which  (conducts  to  a 
handsome  saloon,  coaimunicating  by  largj  windows,  (the  whole  height 
of4lio  building,  fro  n  the  ceiling  to  the  floor,)  with  a  wide  balcony, 
cal(.ulaled  to  accommodate  many  hundred  spetiiators,  and  commanding 
a  full  view  of  the  Couise.  On  either  side  of  the  saloon  are  retiring  and 
refreshment  rooms.  These  ditferent  compartments  are  carpeted,  and 
furnished  in  gor>  1  taste,  and  reserved  for  the  ladies  that  mav  honor  the 
Club  with  their  attendance.  The  balcony  of  the  Grand  Stan:!  descends 
gra  lually  by  easy  steps  to  the  Course,  but  without  any  egress  in  that 
dire.'tion  ;  whilst  in  the  basement,  the  arrangements  for  the  convenience 
of  the  Stewards,  an  1  the  comfort  of  the  Jo.-kies,  when  weighing,  chang- 
ing their  liveries,  &c.,  are  excellent. 

To  the  right  of  the  ])rincipal  Stand  is  a  separate  Stand  for  the  officers, 
the  President,  Vice-Presiilent  and  Timers,  and  immediately  opposite  (a 
string  suspended  from  one  building  to  the  other),  is  a  box  for  the  Starter 
of  the  horses.  The  Course,  for  a  considerable  distance  on  both  sides  of 
these  buildings,  is  enclosed  by  a  stout  picket  fence,  sufficient  to  shut  out 
the  crowd  fiom  that  part  of  the   Course,  and  to   keep  it  private,  but  in 


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no  way  to  interfere  with  the  view  of  the  public.  Great  pains  have 
always  been  talcen  to  keep  the  running  ground  in  such  order  as  to  ren- 
der it  as  unexceptionable  to  the  Trainers,  as  tlie  nature  of  the  ground 
will  allow.  The  track  is  oval,  of  a  sandy  soil,  exactly  one  mile — a  light 
rail  enclosing  it  on  both  sides  all  the  way  round.  The  subjoined  is  a 
diagram  of  it,  from  the  joint  bands  of  Major  Parker  and  K.  Q.  Piuck- 
ney,  Esq.,  both  gentlemen  of  scientific  attainments,  on  whose  accuracy 
the  most  implicit  reliance  may  be  placed. 

T^-A-SHiisra-TOisr   cotTRSB. 

I.N.NER    DITCH    OK    TH£    TRACK. 


LADIES  STAjSD 


N 


1^3 


410  "YAUDS 


The  Inner  Ditch  of  the  Track  is  exactly  1760    yard3  or  one  mile. 

1  yard  from  the  Ditch  gives 1765.1  yards. 

2  yards  from  do 1772        do. 

3  do    from  do 1778        do. 

4  do    from  do 1784        do. 


Respectable  strangers  from  abroad,  or  from  other  States,  are  never 
allowed  to  pay  for  admission  to  any  of  the  Stands  on  the  Course.  On 
their  arrival  they  are  immediately  considered  guests,  and  j^rovided  with 
tickets  and  a  ribbon,  which  frank  them  everywhere,  entitling  them  to 
the  hospitalities  of  the  Club  during  the  whole  meeting, 

[A  very  highly  finished  wood  engraving,  by  II.  l^o'ise,  who  is  now 
engaged  in  business  in  this  city,  embellishes  the  beginning  of  this  work 
as  a  vignette.  Mr.  Bosse  has  been  exceedingly  happy  in  the  composi- 
tion of  the  crowd  of  figures,  giving  the  picture  life  and  truthfulness. 
The  Building  is  from  a  Daguerreotype  taken  expressly  and  gratuitously 
for  this  work  by  D.  L.  Glenn,  a  native  of  this  city,  pursuing  his  votia- 
tion  as  au  artist,  at  No,  215  King-street.     His  pictures  are  executed  in 


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^he  highest  style  of  the  art  he  professes.  In  evidence  of  the  general 
appreciation  in  which  he  is  held,  and  the  rank  that  has  been  assigned 
him,  the  first  premium,  for  two  years  in  succession,  has  been  awarded 
to  him  by  the  South  Carolina  Institute,  for  his  specimens  of  Daguerreo- 
types, AmbVotypes,  and  Photographs.] 

The  arrangements  on  the  Course  are  such  as  to  insure  good  order 
and  etiquette  ;  refinement  and  high  breeding  characterizing  those  who 
prefer  lingering  about  the  Grand  Stand,  whilst  those  who  wish  to  diver- 
sify the  scene,  and  witness  life  in  other  phases,  can  seek  it  in  other 
parts  of  the  Course,  at  the  booths,  where  ample  preparations  are  always 
made,  by  the  different  proprietors  of  these ,  restaurants,  to  minister,  in 
every  conceivable  way,  to  the  tastes  of  the  votaries  of  fun  and  frolic, 
and  to  those  also  who  require,  in  a  long  day,  to  have  their  inner  man 
regaled  from  time  to  time.  We  must  not  omit  to  mention,  that,  at 
considerable  expense,  the  Club  put  up  a  Citizens'  Stand,  opened  to  all, 
gratis — the  second  story  arranged  with  rows  of  seats,  one  above  the 
other ;  the  lower  floor  divided  off  into  different  compartments,  some 
commodiously  and  conveniently  arranged  for  the  accommodation  of 
small  or  large  parties,  and  fitted  up  in  good  taste.  Many  of  these  re- 
freshment rooms  are  superintended  by  well  known  habitues  of  the  locale, 
well  experienced  in  such  undertakings,  and  to  cater  to  the  tastes  and 
appetites  of  the  most  fastidious. 

In  addition  to  the  courtesy  manifested  to  the  public  by  the  Club,  in 
providing  a  "  Citizens'  Stand,"  the  Club  purchased  and  owns  a  large 
farm  adjoining  the  Course,  which  is  arranged  with  stables,  to  accommo- 
date in  the  most  convenient  and  economical  manner,  all  who  visit 
Charleston  with  horses  from  distant  States. 

The  Races  over  our  Course  are  well  patronized,  season  after  season, 
by  owners  of  some  of  the  best  stock  on  the  American  Turf;  likewise 
many  lovers  of  the  sport,  "  for  itself  alone,"  never  fail,  from  year  to  year, 
to  put  in  an  appearance  from  distant  points,  as  the  days  of  promise 
come  round.  The  proximity  of  our  Race  Ground,  too,  to  the  city — (in 
fact,  it  is  now  a  portion  of  the  city  itself,  by  a  late  annexation  bill) — 
offers  great  temptations  and  facilities  to  all  of  our  own  good  people  dis- 
posed to  participate  in  the  sport,  to  go  out  whenever  the  weather  is  at 
all  inviting.  From  these  circumstances,  and  the  numberless  agremens 
incident  to  our  meetings,  the  Races  are  generally  well  attended,  having 
a  charm  for  many  others  besides  those  who  are  altogether  absorbed  in 
the  appearance  and  performances  of  the  horses. 

The  Races  commence  on  the  first  Wednesday  in  February  of  every 
year,  and  continue  throughout  the  week. 


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First  day. — Wednesday,  4  mile  heats,  Jockey  Club  Purse |1,000 

Same  day,  Hutchinson  Stakes,  mile  heats,  $200 
given  by  the  Club,  with   forfeits  averaging  an 

amount  for  ihe  winner  of 1,400 

Second  day. — Thursday,  3  mile  heats.  Jockey  Club  Purse 750 

Same  day,  CaroHna  Stakes,  mile  heats,  |500  given 
by  the  Club,  with  forfeits  averaging  an  amount 

for  the  winner  of 700 

Third  day. — Friday,  2  mile  heats.  Jockey  Club  Purse 500 

Sayne  day,  Hutchinson  Stakes,  2  mile  heats,  1500 
added  by  the  Club,  with  forfeits  averaging  a 

sum  for  the  winner  of 2,000 

Fourth  day. — Saturday,  Handicap,  3   mile  heats,  Jockey  Club 

Purse 600 

Same  day,  single  heat  of  3   miles.  Jockey  Club 
Purse 300 


17,250 

Besides  the  above  sums,  there  is  frequently  a  purse  given  by  the  citi- 
zens of  Charleston,  $1,000  and  upwards,  which,  if  added  to  the  regular 
Jockey  Club  Purses,  as  set  down  above,  will,  without  any  private  ven- 
tures, inside  stakes,  &c.,  swell  the  sum  total  of  the  good  things  that  are 
within  the  reach  of  the  ditferent  stables  attending  the  Charleston  Races, 
to  upwards  of  eight  thousand  dollars  ! 

To  give  additional  eclat  to  the  Charleston  Races,  and  to  further  the 
prosperity  of  the  Club,  Mr.  Tattersall,  of  Hyde  Park  Corner,  London, 
presented,  in  1837,  to  the  South  Carolina  Jockey  Club,  a  whip,  to  be 
run  for  annually,  upon  the  principle  which  governs  the  Whip  in  Eng- 
land. It  was  accepted  by  the  Club  in  the  same  spirit  in  which  it  was 
tendered,  and,  in  compliment  to  the  donor,  it  was  denominated  "  The 
Tattersall  Whip"  Mr.  Tattersall  was  at  the  same  time  unanimously 
elected  an  honorary  member  of  the  Club.  Col.  Hampton  won  this 
whip  with  his  imported  colt  Monarch,  by  Priam,  out  of  Delphine.  It 
has  since  remained  in  the  possession  of  that  gentleman,  unchallenged. 

As  a  part  of  the  history  of  the  South  Carolina  Jockey  Club,  that  it 
may  well  be  congratulated  upon,  is  the  fact  of  its  wonderful  exemption 
from  accidents.  Considering  the  number  of  races  that  have  been  run 
over  the  Washington  Course,  very  few  casualties  have  occurred — we 
cannot  call  to  mind  more  than  three  occasions  when  a  Jockey  has  been 
thrown,  and  not  one  of  these  mishaps  attended   by  serious  consequences. 

The  question  has  often  been  asked,  why  does  not  the  South  Carolina 


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Jockey  Club,  with  its  ample  means,  have  two  meetingfl  a  year,  instead 
of  one  ?  We  answer,  that  although  this  may  occasionally  be  talked  of 
OMif  q/"(ioor.9,  it  has  never  found  favor  with  the  members.  They  have 
invariably  set  their  faces  against  it,  with  great  wisdom,  feeling  the  force 
of  the  reasoning  of  Juvenal : 

"  Voluptates  commendat  rarior  usus." 

Our  pleasures  have  a  higher  relish  when  they  are  rarely  used.  The 
keenest  sense  of  delight  is  sure  to  be  blunted  by  a  too  frequent 
repetition. 

A  Jockey  Club  dinner  on  Wednesday,  and  a  Jockey  Club  ball  on 
Friday,  are  annually  given  in  the  race  week  from  the  funds  of  the  Club. 
The  dinner  is  always  an  aflfair  of  great  enjoyment,  got  up  imder  the 
direction  of  those  of  the  Stewards  who,  from  their  own  love  of  the  good 
things  of  this  life,  know  exactly  how  to  provide  for  the  taste  of  others. 

From  time  immemorial,  amid  the  general  hum  of  mirth  and  conver- 
sation that  ensues,  after  the  cloth  is  removed,  at  a  given  signal,  with 
one  consent,  every  body,  however  vociferous  a  few  moments  before,  is 
hushed  into  a  profound  silence.  The  President,  then,  takes  the  leady 
"Tind  keeps  it,  with  "  The  High-Mettled  Racer  ;"  when  no  sooner  is  the 
last  note  of  this  admirable  song  breathed,  than  a  most  unanimous  ham- 
merino-  of  the  tables,  and  rattling  of  the  glasses,  proclaim  its  termination, 
and  attest  more  plainly  than  words  can  express  the  cordiality  with 
which  it  has  been  listened  to.  From  the  enthusiasm  with  which  this 
performance  is  received  at  every  returning  anniversary,  we  believe,  in 
all  time  to  come,  no  gentleman  will  be  deemed  fully  qualified  to  fill  the 
chair,  who  is  not  able  to  sing  this  highly  popular  song.  To  this  suc- 
ceeds, like  a  succession  of  lightning  flashes,  a  vividness  of  conviviality, 
among  the  many  merry  fellows,  who  are  the  life  and  soul  of  the  Club, 
keeping  up  till  a  late  hour,  the  harmony  of  "  the  merrie  meeting,"  prov- 
ing that  when  to  ease  and  cheerfulness  there  is  superadded  the  highest 
zest  of  gay  wit,  lively  fancy,  refined  humor,  nothing  can  be  wanting  to 
the  perfection  of  the  social  pleasures  of  life. 

There  is  no  better  way  of  heightening  the  general  happiness  of  a 
large  party  than  by  a  good  song.  This,  from  time  immemorial,  has 
been  a  prevailing  opinion.  The  Grecians  carried  this  conviction  so  far 
as  to  have  had  songs  appropriate,  not  only  to  social  gatherings,  but  to 
the  various  trades.  It  has  been  with  much  truth  said,  "  that  the  charac- 
ter of  a  people  is  long  preserved  in  their  songs." 

It  is  not  to  be  doubted  that  the  animating  efi'ect  of  the  annual  post- 
prandial repetition  of  the  air  of  "  The  High-Mettled  Racer,"  will  greatly 


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contribute  to  preserve,  forever  and  forever,  the  tone  of  social  exercises 
that  lias  for  many  years  cliaracterized,  season  after  season,  every  annual 
festival  of  the  South  Carolina  Jockey  Club.  For  the  benefit  of  all  con- 
cerned, tlen,  who  are  to  come  after  us,  we  furnish  a  copy  of  the  words 
of  this  truly  graphic  and  justly  admired  production  : 

THE    HIGH-METTLED    RACER. 

-See  the  Course  thronged  .with  gazers  !  the  sports  are  begun ; 
The  confusion  but  hear!  "  I'll  bet  you,  sir"—"  Done ! — done!" 
Ten  thousand  strange  clamors  resound  far  and  near; 
Lords,  hawkers  and  jockeys  assail  the  tired  ear. 
While  with  neck  like  a  rainbow,  erecting  his  crest, 
Pampered,  prancing  and  pleased,  his  nose  touching  his  breait, 
Scarcely  snuffing  the  air,  he's  so  proud  and  elate, 
The  high-mettled  racer  starts  ficA'-^r  the  plate. 

Now  Reynard's  turned  out,  and  o'er  hedge  and  ditch  rush 
Hounds,  horses  and  huntsmen,  all  hard  at  his  brush  ; 
They  run  him  at  length,  and  they  have  him  at  bay, 
And  by  scent  and  by  view  cheat  a  long  tedious  way ; 
While  alike  born  for  sports  (Tf  the  field  and  the  Course, 
Always  sure  to  come  through,  a  staunch  and  fleet  horse^ 
When  fairly  run  down  the  fox  yields. up  his  breath, 
The  high-mettled  racer  is  in  at  the  death. 

Grown  aged,  used  up,  and  turned  out  of  the  stud, 

Lame,  spavined,  and  wir.d-galled,  but  yet  with  some  blood, 

While  knowing  postillions  his  pedigree  trace. 

Tell  his  dam  won  that  sweepstakes,  his  sire  gained  this  race « 

And  what  matches  he  won  too  the  ostler's  count  o'er. 

As  they  loiter  their  time  at  some  hedge  alehouse  door ; 

While  the  harness  sore  galls,  and  the^spurs  his  sides  goad, 

The  high-mettled  i-acer's  a  hack  on  the  road. 

Till  at  last  having  labored,  drudged  early  and  late, 
Bowed  down  by  degrees,  he  bonds  to  his  fate  ; 
Blind,  old  and  feeble,  he  tugs  round  a  mill. 
Or  draws  sand,  till  the  sand  of  his  hourglass  stands  still. 
And  now  cold  and  lifeless,  exposed  to  the  view, 
In  the  very  same  cart  which  he  yesterday  drew, 
While  a  pitying  crowd  his  sad  relics  surrounds, 
The  high-mettled  racer  is  sold  for  the  hounds. 


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The  annual  Jockey  Club  ball  always  takes  place,  as  has  been  stated, 
on  Friday  evening  of  the  race  week.  The  ball !  the  ball !  yes,  the  ball, 
par  excellence,  of  all  balls  ! 

"  The  halls — the  halls  of  dazzling-  light" — 

the'  chalked  floors,  the  superb  dresses  of  the  company,  the  furbelows, 
the  flounces,  the  bouquets  of  fresb-rdfeeblids  and  camelias,  the  exhilarat- 
ing music,  the  ceaseless  whirl  of  muslin  and  of  broadcloth  in  the  centre 
of  the  hall,  the  handsome  mirrors  that  decorate  the  walls  of  the  gay 
saloon,  reflecting  graceful  figures  "  on  the  light  fantastic^''  as  if  in  some 
fairy  region,  lending  enchantment  to  the  brilliant  scene  ! 


OFFICERS    OF    THE    CLUB,   1856, 

JAMES   ROSE,   President; 
WADE  HAMPTON,    Vice-President; 
E.  P.   MILLffiEN,   Secretary; 
J.    C.   COCHRAN,    Treasurer; 
HENRY   C.   KING,    Solicitor. 


Steioards 


Frank  Hampton, 
Thos.  F.  Porcher, 
J.  M.  Howell, 
W.  St.  J.  Mazyck. 


A.  M.  Manigault,  ResdH. 
Chr.  Fitzsimons, 
Chr.  Gaillard, 
L.  D.  DeSaussure, 
Thos.  M.  Wagner, 

Executive  Committee. — James  Rose,  John  S.  Ashe,  Henry  Gour- 
din,  Wm.  Ravenel,  W.  C.  Murray. 

Finance   Committee. — Henry   Gourdin,    W.  C.  Murray,    Edward 

MOTTET. 

Farm  Committee. — Chr.  Fitzsimons,  Thomas  L.  Wragg,  P.  C, 
Gaillard. 

Managers  of  the  Ball. — William  H.  Huger,  John  McPherson 
Creighton,  Sedgwick  Simons,  Wm.  R.  Mathewes,  Elias  N.  Ball. 


iV#^ 


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i'.. 


PART   VI. 


^  §\mtt  »t  i\t  Jiftont  frnt  tend  in  S0Kt|  fralina. 


"  The  snorting  of  horses  was  heard ;  the  whole  land  trembled  at  the  sound  of  the 
neighing  of  the  strong  ones." — Jeremiah,  ch.  viii.,  v.  16. 


'} 


Besides  the  "Washington  Course,  near  Charleston,  there  are  other 
places  where  race  meetings  were  held  annually  in  the  State  of  South 
Carolina.  We  will  give  the  names  of  some  : — St.  Mathews,  Pendleton, 
Greenville,  Barnwell,  Newberry,  Pineville,  Laureftsville,  Union,  Dead- 
fall, Beaufort,  Strawberry,  Georgetown,  Fulton,  Camden,  Columbia, 
Orangeburg,  Cherokee  Ponds,  Limestone  Springs  and  Yorkville. 

The  races  at  many  of  these  places  have  been  discontinued  long  ago. 
At  Orangeburg,  now  numbered  among  the  things  that  were,  Argyle,  the 
competitor  of  "John  Bascombe,"  in  his  nuitch  at  Augusta,  made  his  first 
race. 

At  some  of  the  above  mentioned  places,  the  meetings  progressed 
wonderfully  in  a  few  years  from  their  first  organization,  particularly  the 
Columbia  Club,  established  in  the  Spring  of  1828,  and  which  bid  fair 
in  a  short  time,  being  under  the  countenance  of  such  patrons  as  Col. 
Hampton  and  Col.  Singleton,  and  other  influential  supporters,  to  effect 
much  towards  the  accomplishment  of  the  great  end  iu  view,  namely: 
the  perfection  of  "the  thorough  bred."  Columbia  had  two  meetings  in 
the  year;  and  from  the  produce  stakes  whi<-h  were  instituted  there, 
owing  to  its  proximity  to  a  neighborhood  where  there  are  many  breed- 
ing farms,  there  was  no  reason  why  the  old  Club  should  not  have  been 
kept  up  with  the  same  spirit  and  eclat  that  for  many  seasons  charac- 
terized its  proceedings. 

A  new  Club  has  recently  been  formed  at  Columbia,  and  a  fresh  start 
made,  under  favorable  auspices.  A  very  gratif\ing  meeting  was  held 
there  in  December  last.  The  Congaree  Course  has  been  thoroughly 
refitted,  and  extensive  arrangements  made  for  the  accommodation  of  the 
public,  under  the  direction  of  Mr.  Thomas  Puryear,  who  is  now  proprie- 
tor of  the  Course. 

Pineville  is,  and  always  has  been,  a  very  popular  meeting.  It  has 
many  attractive  and  peculiar  features.  It  is  a  meeting  conducted  en- 
tirely unlike  any  other  we  know  of  in  our  country.  It  is  aristocratic  in 
its  character — or,  we  ought  rather  to  say,  the  company  in  attendance  is 
always  of  so  select  an  order,  composed  of  the  gentry  of  the  immediate 
neighborhood,  that  it  resembles  a  large  united  family  party,  rather  than 
the  promiscuous  throng  of  all  sorts  and  conditions  of  people  it  is  usual 
to  find  congregated  on  a  race  ground  in  other  places. 


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We  ttink  the  name  of  this  interesting  meeting  ought  to  be  changed 
from  "  Pineville  Races  "  to  "  Goodwood  Races,"  after  the  most  fashionable, 
and,  perhaps,  delightful  place  of  meeting  at  present  in  England.  The 
Course  at  Pineville  not  only  resembles  that  famous  and  popular  locale 
(we  have  alluded  to)  in  situation,  being  surrounded  by  a  fine  park  or 
wood^  but  the  company  is  likewise  always  so  good,  that  we  cannot  but 
come  to  the  conclusion  that  the  name  of  "  Good-Wood  "  very  appropri- 
ately applies  to  it. 

At  Goodwood  (being  private  property),  " the  sacred  precincts"  are 
guarded  with  th^  utmost  vigilance  by  the  Duke  of  Richmond,  part  of 
whose  domain  it  is,  and  who  suffers  no  gambling  booth  or  tent,  or  any 
thimble  or^'^migg.  tables,  of  any  description,  to  be  erected  ;  and  con- 
stables, employed  specially  for  the  purpose,  have  strict  instructions  to 
apprehend  all  persons  so  offending,^r  gaming  in  any  other  way  what- 
ever. At  Pineville  the  "^me  rule^  and  surveillance  are  observed.  In 
fact,  everything  is  conducted  with  the  strictest  decorum  and  refinement ; 
indeed,  so  much  so,  that  if  it  were  not  for  the  name  of  the  thing,  the 
most  pious  and  rigid  moralist  could  attend  the  races  without  being 
offended  in  the  slightest  particular,  or  being  able  to  take  exception  to 
any  of  the  proceedings  going  on  around  them. 

The  Pineville  meeting,  therefore,  is  purely  one  of  pleasure,  divested 
of  every  attraction  for  the  mere  business  men  t)f  the  Turf — for  those,  I 
mean,  who  only  follow  it  professionally — but  it  is  pleasanter  to  many 
other  persons  on  that  very  account;  and  many  worthy  old  gentlemen, 
"  good  men  and  true,"  all  of  the  olden  time,  surrounded  by  their  <lescen- 
dants  of  the  second  generation,  come  out  to  have  a  day's  enjoyment  at 
it  who  never  bet  a  cent — and,  perhaps,  do  not  know  of,  at  all  events 
take  no  thought  of,  tlie  thousand  other  events  that  are  "  coming  off" 
from  time  to  time  during  the  residue  of  the  year  in  other  parts  of  the 
country ;  they,  probably,  have  never  seen  a  race  at  any  other  place. 

During  race  week,  the  most  jovial  conviviality  abounds  in  the  neigh- 
borhood. To  write  on  this  subject,  however,  to  persons  who  know 
society  only  as  it  exists  in  other  parts  of  the  United  States,  is  like  point- 
ing out  the  beauties  of  nature  to  a  blind  man ;  he  may  hear,  but  cannot 
comprehend  your  meaning.  Here  you  see  a  people — a  primitive  people 
standing  by  themselves — a  type  of  the  feudal  past — living  upon  the 
lands  of  their  fathers,  marrying  and  intermarrying,  continuing  to  j)rac- 
tise  that  hospitality,  &nd  those  polite  attentions  to  strangers,  which  their 
fathers  practised  "  in  the  good  old  times  before  them."  The  venerable 
Major  Samuel  Porcher,  long  regarded  by  his  neighbors  with  an  affection 
little  short  of  idolatry — the  kind-hearted  Stephen  G.  Deveaux,  and  his 


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son  Marion,  deariy  beloved  by  all  who  knew  them — these  will  be  seen  no 
more  doing  the  honors  there ;  but  Col.  Dubose,  one  of  the  good  old  set, 
still  survives  to  show  what  a  gentleman  of  the  old  school  was ;  and 
Mazyck  Porcher,  too,  representing  him  whose  name  he  bears,  and  repre- 
senting him  worthily,  and  many  others,  also,  keep  open  house,  and  "  fare 
sumptuously"  every  day — the  brightness  of  their  countenances,  as  new 
comers  drive  up  to  their  doors,  indicating  more  plainly  than  words  can 
express  it,  the  cordial  welcome  they  extend  to  all. 

Pineville  was  first  inhabited  in  1794-.  The  first  settlers  who  built 
there  were  John  Palmer,  Peter  Gaillard,  Peter  Porcher,  Philip  Porcher 
•and  Samuel  Porcher.  The  present  Course,  near  Pineville,  was  laid  out 
by  Col.  Maham.  The  Course  was  then  called  "  The  St.  Stephen's 
Course,"  and  a  Club  was  formed,  khown  as  "  The  Santee  Jockey  Club." 
Its  first  meeting  took  place  on  the  7th  of  March,  1791  ;  John  Palmer 
was  elected  President.  The  weights  were  heavier  than  at  the  present 
day.  For  aged  horses,  136  lbs.;  6  years  old,  132;  5  years,  124;  4 
years,  112.  This  Club  increased  with  the  most  surprising  rapidity.  The 
second  year  of  its  organization  there  were  ninety-seven  members ;  there 
is  not  now  a  single  survivor  of  that  original  number.  The  venerable 
and  beloved  Major  Samuel  Porcher  was  the  last;  he  died  a  few  years 
since.  Col.  Washington,  Col.  Alston,  Col.  Warren,  Col.  McPherson, 
Mr.  Fenwicke,  and  all  the  distinguished  Turfites  of  those  days,  were 
members  of  the  Club,  and  supporters  of  its  annual  meetings. 

In  1794,  the  famous  Commerce,  then  three  years  old,  entered  by  Mr. 
John  McPherson,  beat  a  large  field,  two  mile  heats.  In  1795,  a  very 
interesting  race,  three  mile  heats,  was  run — Mr.  Wm.  Tock's  Banker,  4 
years  old,  beating  Gen.  Washington's  Rosetta,  then  aged,  Mr.  Fenwicke's 
Commerce,  4  years,  and  Capt.  Warren's  Echaw,  6  years  old.  There 
were  three  heats.  Rosetta  won  the  first  heat  in  5  m.  59  sec. ;  Banker 
the  second  and  third  heats,  in  5.55  and  6.23. 

In  the  same  year  the  celebrated  Shark  walked  over  for  the  Jockey 
Club  Purse,  2  mile  heats.  In  1796  and  1797,  Mr.  Fenwicke's  Commerce 
won  the  Jockey  Club  Purses,  beating  on  one  occasion  Banker,  that  had 
beaten  him  previously  in  the  year  1795. 

In  former  days,  prior  to  "  the  St.  Stephen's  Course,"  laid  out  by  Col. 
Maham  as  we  have  said,  there  was  another  Race  Course  on  the  now 
plantation  of  Col.  Wm.  Dubose.  There  was  a  ball  alley  on  that  Course. 
Players  used  to  come  periodically  from  a  great  distance.  Col.  Hampton, 
Col.  Sumter,  and  other  leading  characters  of  those  days,  frequently 
participated  in  the  amusement  of  a  game  of  ball. 

In  the  infancy  of  the  South  Carolina  Turf,  many  good  horses  were 


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bred  on  the  High  Hills  of  Santee  by  Mr,  William  Richardson,  who  died 
in  1V86.  After  his  death,  his  stud,  which  was  extensive,  was  disposed 
of  at  auction.  The  following  curious  and  antique  advertisement  on  the 
occasion,  was  preserved  by  the  body  servant  of  Mr.  Richardson — old 
David  by  name.  He  attained  a  great  old  age,  and  died,  not  many  years 
since,  at  Bloomhill  Plantation,  the  former  residence  of  his  master.  It 
is  published  now  in  this  place,  to  show  some  of  the  stock  that  was 
originally  brought  into  South  Carolina  from  Virginia: 

PUBLIC     AUCTION, 

ON  THURSDAY, 
The  23c?  of  November  next  (1Y87). 
At  the  Plantation  of  the  late  William  Richardson,  Esq.,  at  the  High 
Hills  of  Santee, 

WHX  BE  SOLD, 

To  the  hirjhest  bidder, 
For  prime  Copper  or  purple   Indigo,  to   be   delivered  in  Charleston  in 
twelve  months  from  the  date  of  the  sale,  with   interest  jiayable  in  like 
manner,  and  approved  security, 

43   Valuable  high  blooded 
MARES,    COLTS     AND     FILLIES, 
Of  the  first  rate  Pedigrees  in  the  State. 
Among  which  are  fourteen  Brood   Mares,  several   of  which  were   pur- 
chased in  Virginia,  and   got  by  the  noted    horses  Fearnought,  Shadow, 
Lofty  and   Centinel,  seven  two  years  old,  six   three  years  old,  and   six 
four'  years  old,  by  Fearnought,  Shadow  and   Centinel ;    the   remainder 
under  two  years  old  were  got  by  Victorious.     Eight  of  the  Mares  are 
now  in  foal  by  Effingham. 

If  Thursday  should  prove  rainy,  the  sale  will  happen  on  the  fir.'^t  fair 
day  afterwards. 

By  order  of  the  Executors  and  Ex'ix, 

JOB  COLCOCK, 
Who  would  also  undertake  the  sale  of  any  other  property  at  the  same 
time  and  place  which  any  gentleman  in  the  neighborhood  may  wish  to 
have  disposed  of  at  public  vendue. 

Printed  by  Bowen  &  Markland,  No.  53  Church  Street  and  No.  11  Elliott  Street, 


PART    VII. 


°§rctj)rni  of  tijt  Siuf. 


Again  ye  come,  again  ye  throng  around  me, 
Dim,  shadowy  beings  of  my  boyhood's  dream! 

Ye  are  with  you  bringing 

Images  of  other  days — 

In  your  j'ath  upspringing 

Old  Tradition's  half  remembered  lays — 

They,  whose  greeting 
Gladdeiied  me, — my  spring-time  friends,  are  gone 

From  the  place  of  meeting, 

One  by  one. — 
The  near  afar  off  seems, — the  distant  nigh — 
The  now  a  dream, — the  past  reality. 

Halleck^s  Translation  of  the  Poetic  Preface  to  Faust. 


11 


Is  he  thy  brothex'  ? 

Not  so  ill  kin. 

Not  in  the  fashion  thiit  the  world  puts  on, 
But  Brother  in  the  heart. 

Let  me  not  be  accused  of ,  pedautry,  for  having  selected  the  title  of 
Brethren  of  the  Turf  for  the  foUowincf  sketches  and  ondits  of  the  racing 
men  of  South  Carolina.  The  title  is  not  without  its  force  and  meaning, 
which  will  be  readily  recognized  by  all  who  knew  the  men  of  whom  I 
treat.  Though  carrying  out  the  principle  of  emulation  to  its  last  de- 
gree, they  never  failed,  in  their  intercourse  with  each  other,  to  practise 
those  amenities  which  secured  uninterrupted  harmony — making  the 
Turf,  in  their  hands,  in  more  senses  than  one,  a  school  of  good  breeding, 
and  themselves  a  noble  band  of  brothers! 

On  the  revival  of  Racing,  in  South  Carolina,  after  the  Revolution,  the 
most  conspicuous  gentlemen  ujion  the  Turf  were  Col.  William  Alston, 
Col.  Washington,  E.  Fenwicke,  Esq.,  Gen.  McPherson,  and  Gen.  Wade 
Hampton. 

Col.  William  Alston,  of  Waccaraavv,  for  many  years  had  the  most 
extensive  stud  of  all  his  contemporaries  in  South  Carolina.  Among  his 
most  distinguished  and  popular  mares  from  which  he  bred,  was  the 
"  Brilliant  mare,"  bred  by  Mr.  Fenwicke,  and  got  by  the  imported  liorse 
Matchem,  nut  of  a  maie  by  Brilliant. 

The  Tartar  maic  bv  old  Flimnap,  out  of  a  mare  by  old  Pharaoh. 

Kitty  Fisher,  b\'  Oscar,  dam  by  imported  Vampire. 

Hope,  by  Shark,  dnm  by  imported  Fearnought. 

Circe,  by  Ai'iel,  out  of  Lady  Northumberland,  imported  by  the  Hon. 
John  Tayloe,  of  Mount  Airy,  in  Virginia. 

Iris,  by  Marplot,  out  of  Nancy  Dawson. 

Marplot  mare,  by  Marplot,  out  of  Betsey  Baker, 

Kitty  Bull,  (imported,)  by  John  Bull,  out  of  Lord  Grosvenor's  Isa- 
bella by  Eclipse. 

Grey  mare,  by  Slouch,  dam  by  Medley. 

Anvilina,  by  Anvil,  out  of  Augusta. 

Peggy,  (imported,)  by  Trumpator,  out  of  Peggy,  sister  to  Postmaster. 

Chesnut  filly,  by  Mambrino,  out  of  a  sister  to  Naylor's  Sally. 

Stirling  mare,  by  Stirling,  out  of  a  Mambrino  mare. 

Col.  Alston  also  bred  from  Nancy  Dawson  and  Betsey  Baker, 


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The  produce  of  the  above  mares  we  will  not  pretend  to  ijive,  as  they 
are  too  numerous,  and  particularly  as  they  may  be  found  registered  with 
great  accuracy  in  the  American  Turf  Register  and  Sporting  Magazine, 
vol.  1,  No.  2,  July,  1830. 

Col.  Alston  had  a  famous  grey  mare  he  called  Alborae,  that  he  was 
very  partial  to.  In  1797,  after  beating  with  her,  Telegra]>h,  the  prop- 
erty of  Col.  Washington,  he  turned  to  that  gentleman,  and  said  in  a 
tone  of  friendly  badinage, 

''  Washington,  what  should  you  think  of  a  mare  that,  like  her  name- 
sake, the  horse  of  the  Prophet,  can  run  in  one  night  from  earth  to 
heaven  ?  " 

Col.  Washington  smilingly  replied,  "  Just  tell  me  the  distance^  sir,  and 
then  I'll  give  you  an  opinion  as  to  what  I  think  of  the  performance." 

Gallatin,  a  ch.  h.,  foaled  in  1799,  by  Bedford,  out  of  Mambrina,  by 
Mambrino,  was  another  of  Col.  Alston's  favorites,  and  well  may  he  have 
been  so,  for  his  .success  was  almost  unp)ef'edented.  He  gave  §^4,000  for 
him,  (at  that  time  a  very  high  price.)  and  always  considered  him  the 
cheapest  horse  he  ever  owned. 

In  1803,  over  the  Washington  Course,  for  the  Joc-key  Club  Purse,  3 
mile  heats,  then  only  3  years  old,  and  carrying  92  lbs.,  he  beat  Mr.  Sin- 
gleton's mare  Dorocles,  Capt.  Fields'  Belle  Rattle,  Mr.  Clifton's  Republi- 
can, Col.  Washington's  Achilles,  Mr.  Bellinger's  Miss  Tims,  and  Mr.  Sea- 
brook's  Furiosus  Celscis.  Gallatin  won  the  1st  heat  in  5  m,  57  sec,  and 
the  2d  heat  in  5  m.  53  sec,  distancing  the  field.  Bets  at  starting  were 
three  to  one  in  favor  of  Gallatin. 

On  Saturday  of  the  same  week  he  won  the  Handicap  Race,  3  mile 
heats,  beating  another  uncommonly  strong  field,  viz.:  Gen.  McPherson's 
celebrated  race  mare  Roxana,  by  Marplot,  Gen.  Washington's  Ariadne, 
by  Bedford,  Capt.  Fields'  Belle  Rattle,  and  his  beautiful  colt  Buonaparte, 
and  Mr.  McPherson's  Leviathan.  Athough  the  Course  was  very  muddy, 
owing  to  a  heavy  fall  of  rain  on  the  morning  of  the  Race,  Gallatin  won 
the  1st  heat  in  5  m.  52  sec,  and  the  2d  in  6  m. 

This  Race  was  a  very  great  triumph  for  a  3  yr.  old  to  achieve.  Every 
horse  entered  was  well  known  to  fame.  Buonaparte  was  a  very  promis- 
ing colt.  A  friend,  upon  whose  judgment  I  can  rely,  informs  me  that 
Buonaparte  was  the  liandsomest  horse  he  ever  saw,  except  imported 
Rowton. 

1804. — Washington  Course,  Feb.  15,  Wednesday,  4  mile  heats,  Gal- 
latin walked  over,  for  the  Jockey  Club  Purse. 

Same  year,  on  Saturday  in  the  same  week,  he  won  the  Handicap 
Race,  3  mile  heats,  beating  Dungannon  and  young  Dare  Devil.  ^ 


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1805. — Gallatin  started  for  the  Jockey  Club  Purse,  4  mile  heats,  but 
was  beaten  by  Mr.  J.  P.  Richardson's  ch.  c.  Sertorius,  4  yrs.,  by  Alder- 
man. He  must  have  been  entirely  out  of  condition  in  this  Race,  for  the 
time  was  very  bad,  8  m.  16  sec,  and  8  m.  18  sec. 

John  Randol{)li,  of  Roanoke,  was  present  in  the  stand  at  Fairfield, 
(Richmond,)  when  Col.  Alston  bought  Gallatin  of  Mr.  Tayloe.  He  was 
then  entei'ed  as  Expectation.  Each  of  these  three  gentlemen  held  a 
stop  watch.  The  first,  second,  and  fourth  miles  were  barely  cantering, 
but  the  third  was  the  fastest  ever  run  in  the  United  States,  the  best  on 
record  for  many  years ;  and  this  determined  Col.  Alston  to  make  the 
purchase,  when  he  changed  the  name  to  Gallatin. 

In  October,  1802,  at  Richmond,  when  3  yrs.  old,  he  ran  a  2  mile  heat 
in  3  m.  43  sec. 

Gallatin's  back  was  long,  and  not  in  the  best  possible  shape,  but  he 
had  fine  shoulders,  and  powerful,  muscular  thighs.  Unfortunately  for 
his  general  success  as  a  stallion,  he  stood  in  Georgia.,  where  there  were, 
at  that  time,  not  many  good  mares.  He  got  some  colts  that  proved  good 
nags,  but  nothing  equal  to  himself.  His  most  distinguished  progeny 
was  Topgallant,  (the  sire  of  Monsieur  Tonson's  dam,)  Marktime,  Lafa- 
yette, and  others. 

Gallatin's  pedigree  is  given  in  full  in  Part  IV,  in  our  notice  of  the 
Races  in  1803. 

Col.  Alston,  in  the  season  of  1805,  determined  to  retire  from  the 
Turf,  after  having  trained  and  run  some  of  the  best  horses  that  ever 
started  in  Carolina — namely  :  Maria,  (the  dam  of  Lady  Lightfoot,)  Gal- 
latin, Nancy  Air,  and  others;  he  bred  also  Lottery  and  young  Peggy; 
the  former  purchased  by  Col.  Singleton,  the  latter  by  Gen.  Hampton. 
He  oftered  for  sale  all  his  race  horses  and  young  stock,  most  of  them  got 
by  Bedford,  Marplot,  Stirling,  and  Spread  Eagle.  Three  of  his  mares 
that  were  sold  were  imported,  namely  :  the  dam  of  Ariadne  and  Galla- 
tin ;  another,  named  Peggy,  bred  by  Lord  Clermont,  and  Anvilina,  got 
by  the  Prince  of  Wales'  famous  horse  Anvil,  out  of  O'Kelly's  cele- 
brated mare  Augusta,  by  Eclipse.  His  whole  stud  was  put  under  the 
hammer  soon  after  the  Charleston  Races  in  1807,  when,  by  judicious 
purchases,  Messrs.  Singleton,  and  Richardson,  and  Hampton  were  ena- 
bled to  keep  up  very  strong  stables  for  many  years  after. 

The  other  distinguished  gentlemen  we  have  mentioned  as  the  contem- 
poraries of  Col.  Alston,  or,  as  we  have  styled  them,  his  "  Brethren  of 
the  Turf,"  continued  to  run  their  horses  with  alternate  success.  The 
most   renowned   and  fortunate  of  Col.  William  Washington's  entries, 


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were  Ranger,  Rosetta,  Flora,  Shark,  Actgeon,  Ariadne,  Childers  and 
Trumpetta. 

Shark  was  a  very  distinguished  animal,  a  dark  bay.  His  first  appear- 
ance in  public  was  in  1794,  as  a  three  year  old,  carrying  92  lbs.,  when 
he  was  beaten  over  the  Washington  Course,  near  the  city  of  Charleston, 
S.  C,  for  the  Jockey  Club  Purse,  3  mile  heats,  by  Dictator,  a  horse  bred 
by  Gen.  McPherson  in  1790,  (see  his  pedigree  in  "Turf  Register,"  vol. 
2d,  p.  463.)  Five  started — Dictator,  Shark,  Mr.  McPherson's  Escape, 
Mr.  Burns'  Paragon,  and  Mr.  Hugh  Rose's  Coquette.  Shark  won  the 
first  heat.  Dictator  the  second  and  third  heats. 

Time — 1st  heat,  6  m,  34  sec. ;  2d  heat,  5  m.  58  sec. ;  3d  heat,  6  m. 
8  sec. 

1795. — Feh.  11. — 4  mile  heats — Washington  Course. — Shark,  as  a  4 
year  old,  106  lbs.,  beat  Capt.  Warren's  Echaw.  This  was  on  the  Wed- 
nesday of  the  race  week.  On  the  following  Saturday  he  also  won  easily, 
against  a  good  field,  the  Handicap  Race,  three  mile  heats. 

1797. — Shark,  6  years  old,  carrying  129  lbs.,  over  the  same  Course 
on  the  Monday  preceding  the  regular  race,  won  a  Sweepstakes  of  £1,200 
sterling — two  mile  heats — beating  Col.  Alston's  celebrated  g.  f.  Alborac, 
and  Gen.  Hampton's  Hazard.  This  was  a  most  excellent  race,  and  run 
in  good  time — 1st  heat,  3  m.  54  sec;  2d  heat,  3  m.  57  se(5.  On  Satur- 
day of  the  same  week  he  beat  Alborac,  three  mile  heats. 

1798. — Monday^  Feb.  12. — Shark  was  beaten  by  Commerce  for  a 
Subscription  Purse  of  $1,000,  4  mile  heats.  This  was  a  very  exciting 
race.  Shark  won  the  second  heat.  Commerce  the  first  and  third  heats. 
Col.  Hampton's  Patiiot  also  started.  We  shall  give  further  particulars 
of  this  race  in  our  notice  of  Commerce. 

1799. —  Wednesday,  Feb.  13. — Over  the  Washington  Course,  Jockey 
Club  Purse,  4  mile  heats.  Shark,  aged,  133  lbs.,  beat  Harpoon  and 
Greyhound. 

Same  year. — Shark  won  the  Handicap  Race  at  Charleston,  3  mile 
heats ;  beating,  after  a  severe  race  of  four  heats,  Alborac,  Merry  An- 
drew, Greyhound  and  Harpoon.  Merry  Andrew  won  the  first  heat, 
Alborac  the  second  heat.  Shark  the  third  and  fourth  heats. 

Shark  started  several  times  in  1800  and  1801,  but  without  success. 
He  was  then  advertised  as  a  stallion,  and  became  as  popular  in  the  stud 
as  he  had  been  on  the  Turf. 

Shark  was  conquered  in  1800  by  Black  Maria,  who  had  been  sent  on 
by  Col.  Tayloe  from  Vii'ginia  to  Gen.  Hampton,  for  the  express  purpose 
of  a  trial  with  him.  The  famous  race  mare  Virago  was  first  applied  for 
to  accomplish  the  same  purpose.     It  is  often  stated  and  regretted  that 


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Shark's  pedigree  is  little  known.  There  can  be  no  doubt  he  was  by  im- 
ported Shark,  his  dam  by  Flimnap.  His  performances,  in  our  opinion, 
establish  the  purity  of  his  blood.  To  show  the  favor  in  which  Shark 
was  held  for  the  good  he  had  done  in  his  generation,  he  was  buried  with 
distinguished  honors  at  Janiesville  Race  Course  at  Clarendon,  near  the 
seat  of  the  late  James  B.  Richardson,  of  this  State.  A  marble  slab, 
with  a  suitable  inscription,  marks  the  spot  where  his  remains  were  de- 
posited. 

Col.  Washington  owned  a  full  sister  to  Shark,  and  trained  her,  but 
she  did  not  acquire  any  of  the  fame  of  her  brother.  She  was  matched 
in  179*7  against  Col.  xilston's  Atalanta,  but  paid  forfeit. 

Ariadne,  owned  by  Gen.  Washington,  was  first  called  Fairy.  They 
were  one  and  the  same,  and  not  two  distinct  mares.  The  General 
changed  the  name  to  Ariadne  after  he  bought  her  of  Col.  Hoomes,  of 
the  Bowling  Green.  The  ^me  season  that  he  bought  Ariadne,  he  pur- 
chased, also,  br.  f.  Trumpetta,  which  won  at  Petersburg,  beating  Doctor, 
a  very  good  horse,  and  very  like  Collier  in  figure  and  size.  (See  our 
Calendar,  Part  IV,  season  1802.) 

Gen.  John  McPherson  and  Mr.  E.  Fenwicke,  were  both  staunch 
patrons  and  contributors  to  the  sports  of  the  Turf,  during  a  long  racing 
career,  The}^  both  owned  many  fine  horses,  which,  from  their  intimate 
knowledge  of  horse  flesh  and  condition,  they  were  enabled  to  place  with 
advantage.  The  former  brought  upon  the  Course,  in  1794,  the  renowned 
Commerce,  who,  at  three  years  old,  in  a  race  of  two  miles  (February  15), 
won  the  South  Carolina  Jockey  Club  Purse,  beating  a  large  field. 

In  1796,  Commerce  passed  into  Mr.  Fenwicke's  and  Mr.  Ferguson's 
hands.  They  ran  him  in  his  five  year  old  form,  4  mile  heats,  on  Wednesday, 
for  the  Jockey  Club  Purse,  over  our  Washington  Course,  which  he  won, 
beating  a  very  fast  horse,  Matchem,  the  property  of  Mr.  Bellinger.  In 
the  same  week,  on  Saturday,  he  won  easily  the  Handicap  Race,  3  mile 
heats. 

Like  Shark,  he  was  a  great  feature  on  the  South  Carolina  Turf;  we 
will,  therefore,  enumerate  his  principal  races.  His  first  race,  as  we  have 
just  said,  over  our  Course  as  a  three  year  old,  season  of  1794,  carrying 
92  lbs.,  for  the  Jockey  Club  Purse,  2  mile  heats,  when  he  beat  Capt. 
Saunders'  Cornelia,  Col.  Washington's  Actfeon,  Capt.  Davis'  Picture, 
Capt.  Alston's  Meteor,  Mr.  Hugh  Rose's  Flirt,  Capt.  Moultrie's  Tristam 
Shandy,  Mr.  Richardson's  Farmer,  and  Mr.  Field's  Peter  Pindar. 

Time — 1st  heat,  4  m.;  2d  heat,  4  m.  1  sec. 

1795. — For  the  Jockey  Club  Purse,  of  2  mile  heats,  he  beat  Mr.  Bel- 
linger's Justice,  after  a  very  severe  contest.     Justice  won  the  1st  heat. 


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1196. — Over  the  same  Course,  Commerce,  then  6  years  old,  carrying 
120  lbs.,  beat  Mr.  Bellinger's  bl.  h.  Matchem,  4  mile  heats.  Matchem 
won  the  1st  heat,  and  bolted  in  the  2d. 

On  Saturday,  in  the  same  week,  he  won  the  Handicap  Purse,  beating 
Capt.  O'Brien  Smith's  Tally-ho,  Mr.  Moultrie's  Banker,  and  Col.  McPher- 
son's  Touch-and-Jump. 

1191. —  Wednesday,  Feb.  8. — Same  Course. — 4  mile  heats. — Jockey 
Club  Purse. — He  beat  Lath  easily. 

1798. — Monday,  Feb.  12. — Commerce  won  a  Jockey  Club  Subscrip- 
tion Purse  of  $1,000,  4  mile  heats,  over  the  Washington  Course.  The 
entries  were : — Mr.  Fenwicke's  b.  h.  Commerce,  aged,  133  lbs.;  Col. 
Washington's  b.  h.  Shark,  aged,  133  lbs.;  Gen.  Hampton's  Patriot,  4 
years,  106  lbs. 

Commerce  won  the  1st  and  3d  heats.  Shark  the  2d,  and  made  a  very 
near  thing  of  the  3d.  Patriot  was  well  up  in  each  heat.  The  Course 
was  very  heavy,  I  am  informed,  or  the  time  would  have  been  better. 
The  1st  heat,  I  find,  is  recorded  in  the  journal  of  a  friend,  to  have  been 
run  in  8  m.  16  sec. ;  2d  heat,  8  m.  IV  sec. ;  3d  heat,  8  m.  32  sec. 

Commerce  and  Shark,  I  am  told,  were  often  tried  against  each  other, 
and  were  so  nearly  equal,  it  was  the  opinion  of  competent  judges  that 
condition  alone  determined  their  superiority.  This  was  confirmed,  it  is 
said,  by  the  fact,  that  whenever  Mr.  Fenwicke,  who  knew  the  temper  and 
constitution  of  both  horses  well,  trained  Commerce,  he  beat  Shark;  and 
whenever  he  had  the  care  and  handling  of  Shark,  Shark  in  his  turn 
would  beat  Commerce. 

Shark  having  beaten  several  of  Gen.  Hampton's  best  horses — his  Lath 
and  Hazard — he  resolved  to  find  a  horse  that  should  be  more  fortunate 
against  him.  In  1799,  therefore,  he  trained  a  remarkably  fine  gelding, 
and  brouglit  him  on  the  Course.  As  he  was  entered  to  destroy  Shark, 
he  gave  him  the  significant  name  of  Harpoon.  This  formidable  instru- 
ment, however,  that  was  chosen  to  do  so  much  execution,  and  afibrd  such 
sport,  proved  bluntless  and  unworthy,  not  even  grazing  the  side  of  the 
monster  of  the  deep.  Harpoon,  though  not  being  able  to  make  any 
headway  against  Shark,  nevertheless  proved  a  good  horse,  and  won 
many  fine  races. 

With  the  same  object  that  Harpoon  was  matched  against  Shark,  a 
horse  was  also  selected  to  defeat  and  put  down  Commerce.  He  was 
named  Privateer.  This  clipper  (for  he  was  a  horse  of  great  foot)  did 
not  prove  fast  enough,  however,  to  overhaul  his  anticipated  prize,  and, 
like  Harpoon,  had  to  retire  "  inglorious  from  the  field." 

Gen.  McPherson  bought  from  Col.  Alston  his  Brilliant  mare,  and  his 


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brood  mare  Hope,  with  her  filly  by  Marplot,  besides  importing  from 
EnglaiK.],  Star,  by  Highflyer,  out  of  a  mare  by  Snap — a  very  promising 
stallion  from  the  appearance  of  his  colts,  when  he  left  England ;  also, 
Fire  Brand,  a  ch.  c.  by  Buzzard,  out  of  Fanny,  own  sister  to  King  Fergus 
— a  br,  f.  got  by  Sir  Peter  out  of  Vivaldi's  dam  by  Mercuiy.  This  filly 
was  trained,  and  ran  under  the  name  of  Cinderella — a  roan  colt,  own 
brother  to  the  brown  filly  mentioned  above — a  large  b.  f.  by  Sir  Peter, 
dam  by  Woodpecker — a  gr.  f.  by  Sir  Peter  out  of  Bab  by  Bordeaux ; 
and  a  dark  br.  f  by  Trumpator  out  of  Demirep  by  Highflyer.  Of  the 
above  importations  Star  did  not  answer  the  expectations  raised  of  him 
as  a  foal  getter  in  South  Carolina,  Fire  Brand  died  on  his  passage  out 
to  this  country.  The  roan  colt  was  called  Sir  Peter  Teazle ;  he  was 
trained,  but  never  ran.  The  grey  filly  was  called  Psyche,  and  was  in 
the  stud  of  Col.  Singleton. 

Gen.  Hampton  was  for  a  long  time  one  of  the  most  spirited  of  the 
South  Carolina  racing  men.  He  trained  and  ran  Mogul,  a  very  great 
three  mile  horse — Lath,  Hazard,  Patriot,  Harpoon,  Maria,  Rattle,  Lady 
Bull,  Highlander,  Arabella,  Dungannon,  Merchant,  Omar  and  Caroline, 
cum  multis  aliis,  with  many  others,  too  numerous  to  mention  in  this 
place.  In  1800  he  won  all  the  purses  at  Charleston,  Maria  winning  on 
the  first  and  fourth  days.  Harpoon  the  second  day,  and  Rattle  the  third 
day. 

Ugly,  a  very  fortunate  horse,  though  bred  by  Gen.  Sumter,  was  usually 
run  by  Gen.  Hampton.  He  vs^as  a  good  four  mile  horse.  He  was  ugl^/ 
by  nature  as  well  as  by  name.  On  one  occasion,  after  he  had  made  a 
capital  race,  a  gentleman  (the  late  Judge  Huger,  who  in  a  green  old  age 
long  enjoyed  the  love  and  veneration  of  his  native  State)  looking  at  him 
in  the  crowd,  remarked,  "Who  would  have  expected  such  a  performance 
from  such  an  unpromising  looking  animal  ?"  Gen.  Hampton,  overhear- 
ing the  observation,  with  characteristic  quickness  of  repartee,  replied : 
"  Perhaps,  sir,  you  did  not  know  who  trained  him." 

Gen.  Hampton  purchased  from  Col.  Alston  a  br.  c.  Wonder,  by  old 
Fhmnap  out  of  Kitty  Fisher — a  b.  c.  by  Stirling,  out  of  Kitty  Bull — a 
ch.  f .  by  Bedford,  out  of  an  imported  ch.  f.  by  Mambrino,  out  of  a  sister 
to  Naylor's  Sally.     This  was  a  full  sister  to  the,  great  Gallatin  ! 

The  following  pedigrees  were  arranged  by  Col.  James  Ferguson,  at 
Millwood,  the  seat  of  Col.  Hampton,  near  Columbia,  S.  C,  24th  May, 
1843,  from  memoranda  made  by  Gen.  Hampton  in  his  own  hand-writing 
in  the  blank  pages  of  an  old  edition  of  the  English  Stud  Book.  And 
here  let  me  take  occasion  to  say,  least  I  should  omit  to  make  the  acknow- 


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ledgment  in  its  proper  place  (when  I  come  to  speak  particularly  of  that 
gentleman),  that  much  that  is  of  value  in  these  sketches  I  am  indebted 
for,  to  the  courtesy  and  traditionary  lore  of  Col.  James  Ferguson,  of 
Dockon. 

Gunn  Mare,  bred  by  Gen.  Hampton,  got  by  Paragon,  out  of  a  mare 
imported  into  New  Jersey.  Paragon  was  got  by  old  Flimnap  out  of 
Camilla,  sister  to  Brilliant. 

1802  :  b.  f.  by  Stirling. 

1803:  b.  c.  by  Spread  Eagle. 

1804  :  b.  c.  by  Dare  Devil,  sold  to  Mr.  Ferguson. 

1806:  ch.  cby  Bedford, 

Stirling  Mare,  foaled  1802,  out  of  the  Gunn  Mare. 

1806  :  b.  c.  by  Dragon. 

1807  :  b.  c.  by  Bedford. 

Cora,  bred  by  Col.  Kennon  of  Virginia,  foaled  1790,  got  by  Obscurity, 
her  dam  Nancy  Whirligig  by  Figure — Mark  Antony,  Jolly  Roger,  Mary 
Gray. 

1802  :  b.  f  by  Saltram,  sold  to  Capt.  Sevier. 

1804  :  br.  c.  Milo,  by  Dragon,  sold  to  Mr.  Baker  of  Kentucky. 

1806  :  ch.  f.  by  Dragon. 

1808:  ch.  f.  by  Bedford. 

1809  :  ch.  c.  by  John  Bull.  , 

1810:  ch.  f.  by  a  son  of  Bedford. 

Desdemona,  bred  by  Mr.  Dance,  and  purchased  by  Col.  Selden,  was 
got  by  Dare  Devil,  her  dam  Lady  Bolingbroke  by  Pantaloon,  her  g.  dam 
Cade  by  King  Herod  (by  Fearnought  out  of  Kitty  Fisher),  her  g.  g. 
dam  Primrose  by  Dove  (son  of  Cade  by  old  Cade),  her  g.  g.  g.  dam 
Stella  was  got  by  Othello  by  Arab,  her  g.  g.  g.  g.  dam  Selina  was  got 
by  the  Godolphin  Arabian. 

1804  :  b.  c.  by  Bedford. 

1806  :  b.  f.  by  Dragon,  sold  to  Hon.  Mr.  Steele. 

1808 :  b.  f.  by  Bedford,  given  to  Col.  John  Hopkins. 

1810 :  b.  c.  by  a  son  of  Bedford. 

Cormorant  i/are,  foaled  1800,  bred  by  Col.  Hoomes,  her  dam  by 
Medley,  her  g.  dam  by  Pegasus  (son  of  Fearnought  out  of  Jenny  Dis- 
mal), her  Q..  g.  dam  Sally  Wright  by  Yorick,  out  of  a  thorough  bred 
mare  of  Colonel  Tayloe's. 

1804  :  b.  f.  by  Bedford,  sold  to  Mr.  Pearson. 

1806  :  ch.  f.  by  Dragon. 

1807  :  ch.  c.  by  Bedford. 

Calash,  foaled  1802,  got  by  Saltram  out  of  Cora. 
1806:  b.  f.  by  Dragon. 


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Little  Witch,  foaled  1803,  got  by  Saltram,  her  dam  by  Clockfast,  g. 
dam  by  Yorick,  g.  g.  dam  by  Mr.  Tayloe's  Childers — g.  g.  g.  dam  by 
Traveler  out  of  the  imported  Mare  Jenny  Cameron. 

No  produce. 

Centinel  Mare  was  got  by  Centinel  (son  of  old  Centinel,  Fearnought, 
Jolly  Roger,  Partner,  Silver  Eye),  her  dam  by  Americus,  Janus,  Valiant, 
Aristotle,  &c. 

1806  :  ch.  f.  by  Dragon. 

1807  :  b.  c.  by  Bedford. 

1808  :  b.  f.  by  Bedford. 

Diomed  Mare,  foaled  1801.  her  dam  (the  dam  of  Maria  and  of  Vignt- 
un),  by  Clockfast. 

1805  :  b.  c.  by  Bedford,  sold  to  Mr.  Fitzpatrick. 

1806:  ch.  f.  b.  Dragon.  '' 

1807:  b.  c.  by  Bedford. 

Sold  the  above  mares  to  Col.  Thomas  Pinckney. 

Drone  Mare,  foaled  1800,  bred  by  Col.  Talmadge,  got  by  the  imported 
horse  Drone  (son  of  Herod),  her  dam  Harlot,  imported  by  Col.  Tal- 
madge, was  got  by  a  full  bred  son  of  Herod  out  of  a  Snap  mare; 
she  was  out  of  Lord  Butie's  Harlot. 

1804:  b.  c.  by  Dare  Devil,  sold  to  Mr.  LaRoach. 

1805  :  b.  f.  by  Bedford,  sold  to  Mr.  Fitzpatrick. 
1806:  b.  c.  by  Dragon. 

1808  :  b.  c.  by  Bedford. 

Drone  Mare,  full  sister  to  the  above,  foaled  1801. 

1805:  ch.  f.  by  Bedford. 

1806  :  b.  f.  by  Dragon. 

1807 :  b.  c.  by  Bedford,  sold  to  Mr.  Baker. 

Spread  £Jagle  Mare,  haled  1803,  her  dam  by  Brilliant,  g.  dam  by 
Shadow,  g.  g.  dam  by  Fearnought,  out  of  a  thorough  bred  Mare — 
sold. 

No  produce. 

Fantail,  bred  by  the  late  John  Goode,  Esq.,  of  Mecklenburgh,  Vir- 
ginia. She  was  got  by  a  son  of  Shark  from  a  mare  doubly  crossed  by 
Janus,  and  got  by  his  horse  Twig;  also,  by  Janus  got  by  Warning  out 
of  a  full  bred  Janus  mare ;  Warning  was  got  by  Fearnought,  also  out 
of  a  Janus  mare. 

1805  :  b.  f.  by  Bedford,  sold  to  Mr.  Bynum. 

1807  :  b.  c.  by  Bedford,  sold  to  Mr.  Bell. 
1808:  ch.  f.  by  Bedford. 

1810  :  b.  c.  by  Jolly  Roger. 


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It  would  be  invidious  to  say  who  in  the  present  generation  among 
the  many  conspicuous  characters  on  the  South  Carolina  Turf,  stood  in 
the  foremost  rank.  We  suppose,  however,  we  must  begin  with  Col. 
Singleton,  not  only  as  "  an  older  soldier,"  but  as  a  well  known  breeder,  and 
the  fortunate  possessor  of  many  good  horses,  for  a  long  series  of  years. 

In  182*7,  he  won  every  day  at  Charleston. 

Wednesday,  Feb.  28. — His  ch.  c.  Redgauntlet,  3  years,  by  Sir  Archy, 
walked  over  for  the  Jockey  Club  Purse — 4  mile  heats, 

Thursday,  March  1. — His  gr.  f.  Ariel  by  Eclipse,  beat  Mr.  Graves' 
ch.  m.  Lady  Ezras,  and  Mr.  Harrison's  Roderick,  for  Jockey  Club  Purse 
— 3  mile  heats. 

Friday,  March  2. — His  b.  f.  Nondescript,  4  years,  by  Kosciusko,  beat 
Mr.  Graves'  ch.  c.  Nebo,  by  Timoleon — Jockey  Club  Purse — 2  mile  heats. 

Saturday,  March  3. — Handicap  Race — 3  mile  heats. — His  ch.  f. 
Ariel  beat  Mr.  Graves'  ch.  m.  Lady  Ezras  by  Sir  Archy. 

From  some  cause  or  another,  adhering  too  long,  perhaps,  (as  we  have 
heard  it  premised,)  to  one  particular  strain,  he  was  rendered  almost  hors 
de  combat  for  many  campaigns. 

This  is  too  true,  with  the  exception  of  a  single  filly,  Medora,  (im- 
ported in  1833,  in  the  ship  Camilla,  from  Liverpool,)  by  Chateau  Mar- 
geaux,  out  of  Marianne,  the  dam  of  the  celebrated  English  horse  Medoro, 
and  which,  turning  out  a  trump,  promised  for  a  while  in  a  great  measure 
to  turn  the  tide  of  fortune  again  in  his  favor.  She  started  tAvice  in 
1836  as  a  3  year  old — once  in  Charleston,  19th  February,  and  once  in 
Augusta,  Ga. — for  the  Jockey  Club  Purses,  2  mile  heats,  both  of  which 
races  she  won  easily.  The  former  (carrying  87  lbs.)  she  won  in  3  heats; 
the  1st  heat  was  run  in  4  m.,  the  2d  heat  in  3  m.  50  sec,  the  3d  heat  in 
3  m.  51  sec,  beating  Vertumnus,  4  years  old,  by  Eclipse,  dam  by  Defi- 
ance (who  won  the  first  heat),  and  Mr.  Winter's  ch.  f.  Sally  Jenkins,  and 
a  filly  of  Mr.  Guignard's,  named  Hebe. 

Medora,  becoming  amiss  in  the  following  year,  was  withdrawn  from 
the  Turf,  and  put  to  Priam. 

In  1807,  Col.  Singleton  purchased,  at  the  sale  of  Col.  Alston's  thorough 
bred  stock,  a  ch.  f.,  foaled  in  1805,  by  Bedford,  out  of  an  imported  mare 
bred  by  Lord  Grosvenor,  got  by  Mambrino  out  of  a  sister  to  Naylor's 
Sally ;  also,  ch.  f.  Lottery,  by  Bedford,  out  of  Anvilina,  bred  by  Mr. 
O'Kelly,  foaled  in  1796,  got  by  Anvil  out  of  Augusta,  and  imported  by 
Mr.  John  Tayloe,  in  1799,  into  Norfolk,  Virginia. 

Col.  Singleton  bred  the  celebrated  stallion  Kosciusko,  by  Sir  Archy 
out  of  the  famous  brood  mare  Lottery.  He  was  also  the  owner  of  the 
renowned   but   unfortunate   "Clara  Fisher,"   by   Kosciusko,   dam    by 


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Hephestion,  at  the  time  she  ran  her  memorable  match  as^ainst  Col. 
Johnson's  Bonnets  o'  Blue,  over  the  Washington  Course,  near  Charles- 
ton, S.  C,  in  1832—4  mile  heats,  for  $10,000,  both  4  years  old,  and 
carrying  99  lbs.  Clara  Fisher  had  won  the  1st  heat  in  7  ra.  45  sec, 
and  was  leading  in  the  2d  heat  under  a  strong  pull,  when  she  gave  way, 
from  an  injury  received  a  few  weeks  previously  in  training.  Although 
she  literally  ran  the  two  last  miles  of  the  2d  heat  on  three  legs,  she  was 
well  up  with  her  competitor,  and  concluded  the  heat  in  8  m.  5  sec.  If 
this  casualty  had  not  occurred,  she  musf  have  won  with  considerable 
ease. 

In  point  of  judgment  and  tact  in  managing  a  race.  Col.  Singleton  was 
undoubtedly  equal  to  any  man  in  the  world.  We  have  heard  it  very 
often  lamented,  therefore,  that  he  should  have  been  so  characteristically 
cautious  in  entering  and  making  engagements  for  his  horses.  As  a 
breeder,  I  have  already  said,  Col.  Singleton  was  at  one  period  of  his 
career  unequalled.  From  some  of  his  horses,  the  Turf  in  South  Caro- 
lina derived  signal  advantage.  From  the  following  list  of  the  most  dis- 
tinguished of  his  stock,  it  will  at  once  be  seen,  that  from  his  old  stock 
were  descended  some  of  the  best  horses  of  their  day : 

Lottery^  by  imported  Bedford,  out  of  imported  Anvilina,  a  very  noted 
racer,  and  capital  brood  mare.  She  produced  young  Lottery  by  Sir 
Archy,  Kosciusko,  Saxe  Weimar,  Mary  Singleton,  Phenomenon — all  by 
Sir  Archy,  and  Sylph  by  Hephestion,  who  was  the  dam  of  Redgauntlet, 
a  fine  race  horse  by  Sir  Archy. 

Pandora^  another  of  his  distinguished  brood  mares,  was  the  dam  of 
Little  John  by  Potomac,  Ganymede  by  Hephestion,  &f. 

Imported  Psyche  was  another  of  his  brood  mares;  she  was  the  dam 
of  Mark  Time,  by  Gallatin,  Lambelle'by  Kosciusko,  &c. 

Col.  Singleton  imported,  in  1834,  in  the  ship  Dalhousie  Castle  from 
Liverpool,  bound  direct  to  Charleston,  a  bay  horse  Nan  Plus,  by  Cotton 
out  of  Miss  Garforth  by  Walton.  He  kept  him  for  a  while,  and  tried 
him  as  a  stallion ;  but,  not  equalling  his  expectations  in  the  stud,  he 
offered  him  for  sale  at  the  Columbia  Races  in  January,  1836.  Col. 
Butler,  who  was  killed  at  the  head  of  the  South  Carolina  Regiment, 
gallantly  leading  it  on  to  victory  in  the  Mexican  war,  facetiously  observed 
of  this  horse,  that  as  far  as  he  had  proved  of  any  use  to  Col.  Singleton, 
his  proper  name  should  be  Sur-Plus! 

In  1836,  Col.  Singleton  bought,  at  the  sale  of  yearlings  of  the  King 
of  England's  stud,  a  brown  filly  by  Sultan,  out  of  Rachel,  sister  to  Moses 
by  Whalebone,  rather  small  size  for  her  age,  but  neatly  formed,  very  fine 
shoulder;  she  cost  120  guineas.     He  also  bought  a  b.  f,  by  Tranby,  out 


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of  Elfrida  by  Whalebone — black  legs,  rather  light,  as  all  the  Whalebone 
stock  are,  but  very  handsome;  he  gave  for  her  110  guineas. 

Col.  Singleton  went  to  England  in  1839 ;  while  there,  still  further  to 
improve  his  stock,  he  purchased  a  brown  yearling  filly  by  Augustus,  dam 
by  Orville,  her  dam  Sprightly  by  Whisker  ;  also,  a  yearling  filly  by 
Glaucus,  out  of  Christabel  by  Woful,  her  dam  Harriet  (the  dam  of 
Plenipotentiary)  by  Pericles.  The  two  were  shipped  from  England  in 
the  month  of  October  of  the  same  year. 

At  one  time  the  produce  of  Col.  Singleton's  stud  were  accustomed  to 
bring  the  best  prices,  and  were  sought  after  with  avidity  by  all,  who 
were  either  already  engaged  upon  the  Turf,  or  were  anxious  to  make 
their  dehut  with  some  credit  on  it. 

As  a  breeder  coeval  with  Col.  Singleton,  the  late  Col.  James  B.  Rich- 
ardson stood  conspicuous.  With  but  two  ex(;eptions,  Gen.  Hampton, 
in  1800,  and  Col.  Singleton  in  1827,  he  was  the  only  man  who  ever 
took  all  the  Jockey  Club  Purses  at  one  meeting  in  Charleston.  This  he 
did  in  1833,  having  in  his  stable  a  very  strong  string,  but  without  any 
competition  that  year.  Bertrand,  Jr.,  Little  Venus,  MucklejoLn  and 
Julia,  composed  his  stable.  He  purchased,  at  the  sale  of  Col.  Alston's 
thorough  bred  slock  in  1807,  bay  colt  Rossicuician  by  Dragon,  out  of 
Anvilina  ;  also,  a  ch.  f.  Charlotte  by  Gallatin,  out  of  the  same  dam.  In 
1834,  he  backed  his  Bertrand,  Jr.,  5  years  old,  and  Little  Venus,  5  years, 
against  any  two  named  horses  in  America,  4  mile  heats,  $5,000  a  side, 
each  match.  This  challenge  was  accepte<i  by  Col.  Johnson  of  Virginia, 
who  nominated  Andrew  by  Sir  Charles,  and  Bonnets  o'  Blue  by  Sir 
Charles — Andrew  against  Bertrand,  Jr.,  and  Bonnets  o'  Blue  against 
Little  Venus.  The  latter  match  came  otf  at  Columbia  in  January.  1833, 
and  was  won  by  Little  Venus.  The  former  was  appointed  to  take  |)l;ice 
at  Charleston  over  the  Washington  Course;  but  Andi'ew  falling  lame, 
paid  forfeit. 

The  Colonel's  racing  stud  was  extensive  as  long  as  he  had  the  liealth 
to  attend  personally  to  it.  His  best  and  favorite  bi'ood  mare  was  Ti-ans- 
port  by  Virginius,  out,  of  Nancy  Air.  by  imported  Bedford.  She  made 
several  very  fine  races  in  1817  and  1818,  over  the  Washington  Course, 
which  we  will  dilate  upon  in  another  place. 

During  his  career.  Col.  Richardson  may  truly  be  said  to  have  been  an 
ornament  to  the  Carolina  Turf.  He  always  ran  his  horses  honestlv  and 
truly,  and  supported,  to  the  best  of  his  ability,  the  diflferent  meetings 
throughout  the  State.  He  was  not  generally  successful ;  but  such  was 
the  evenness  of  his  temper,  and  the  amenity  of  his  disposition,  he  seemed 


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quite  as  well  pleased  to  have  afforded  sport,  as  to  have  carried  off  a 
purse. 

Col.  Spann,  as  next  in  order,  and  closely  connected  by  marriage  with 
Col.  Richardson,  was  at  one  time  a  steady  supporter  of  the  Carolina 
Turf;  but  for  the  last  few  years  of  his  life  he  trained  but  very  few  horses. 
He  died  in  1841.  In  fact,  since  he  had  the  handling  of  some  of  his 
lamented  father-in-law's  stock,  (Col.  Richardson,)  the  tide  of  fortune 
seemed  to  have  set  against  his  stables.  He  bred  the  celebrated  Bertrand 
by  Sir  x\rchy,  out  of  Eliza  by  Bedford,  all  things  considered,  both  as  to 
his  performances  whilst  on  the  Tnrf  and  his  get,  as  distinguished  as  any 
native  stallion  of  the  present  century.  He  has  certainly  contrived  to 
get  as  many  winners  out  of  all  sorts  of  mares,  as  any  other  horse  con- 
temporary with  him  ;  Bascombe,  Bill  Austen,  Bertrand,  Jr.,  Rattlesnake, 
and  many  others  too  numerous  to  mention. 

In  speaking  of  this  very  remarkable  horse,  I  cannot  omit  mentioning 
one  great  peculiarity  of  his  running — a  quality  of  inestimable  value, 
and  which  testified  in  an  especial  manner  his  great  game  and  endur- 
ance. I  allude  to  his  power  of  recovering  himself  in  a  long  race,  after 
being  apparently  dead  beat.  He  could  make  more  quarter,  brushes  in 
a  4  mile  heat  than  any  horse  I  ever  saw  severely  pressed  in  a  race.  It 
was  only  necessary  for  his  jockey,  whenever  he  felt  him  weakening,  to 
take  a  strong  pull  upon  him  for  a  few  jumps,  to  find  him  not  wanting^ 
as  soon  as  called  upon  again.  Without  this  invincible  pluck,  he  never 
could  have  beaten  Mr.  Davenport's  Aratus  by  Director,  full  brother  to 
Virginian,  out  of  a  Sir  Harry  mare,  half  sister  to  Timoleon,  in  the  style 
he  did  at  Charleston  i)i  1826,  a  fourth  heat  of  3  miles.  There  were 
three  entries — Bertrand,  Aratus  and  Creeping  Kate,  a  very  fast  thing  by 
Sir  Archy.  Bertrand,  as  a  5  year  old,  carried  112  lbs. ;  Aratus,  5  years 
old,  112  lbs. ;  and  Creeping  Kate,  of  the  same  age,  109  lbs.,  (allowed  as 
a  mare  3  lbs.) 

It  is  proper  to  record  here  as  a  part  of  the  history  of  the  South  Caro- 
lina Turf,  and  one  of  its  greatest  achievements,  that  Bertrand  contended 
for  every  heat]  first  with  Aratus,  Creeping  Kate  just  saving  her  dis- 
tance, and  Aratus  winning  the  heat.  In  the  2d  heat.  Creeping  Kate 
was  the  contending  nag  against  Bertrand,  Kate  at  the  termination  of  the 
heat  showing  a  wonderful  turn  of  speed,  and  winning  it  only  by  a  length. 
In  the  3d  heat,  Bertrand  went  off"  at  the  top  of  his  speed,  closely  fol- 
lowed by  Creeping  Kate,  Aratus  evidently  holding  back  for  the  next 
heat.  Bertrand  won  this  heat  by  a  neck  from  Creeping  Kate.  In  the 
4th  heat.  Creeping  Kate  being  withdrawn,  Bertrand  and  Aratus  ran  a 
match  race.     Aratus  took  the  lead  and  kept  it  the  first  round ;  they 


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then  ran  locked  for  a  mile.  At  the  commencement  of  the  third  round, 
Aratus  seemed  to  have  the  advantage  of  a  stride  or  two  ;  but  within 
300  yards  of  the  coming  in  chair,  Bertrand  rallied  all  his  energies,  made 
a  final  effort,  and  won  the  heat  hy  a  head^  amid  the  deafening  acclama- 
tions of  the  crowd. 

The  1st  heat  was  run  in  5  m.  47  sec.  ;  the  2d  heat  in  5  m.  4"8  sec; 
the  third  heat  in  5  m,  54  sec. ;  and  the  4th  heat  in  5  ra.  53  sec. 

Now,  to  have  owned  such  a  horse  as  Bertrand,  was  glory  enough,  it 
will  be  thought,  perhaps,  for  one  man  in  a  life  time ;  but  to  illustrate 
the  difference  in  the  estimated  value  of  blood  stock  in  those  days,  and 
at  the  present  time,  notwithstanding  the  unrivalled  performance  of  Ber- 
trand, he  was  sold  in  1826  for  the  paltry  sum  of  83,250.  Even  this 
amount  was  at  first  thought  exorbitant.  It  was  only  after  much  delibera- 
tion and  calculation,  and  consultation  with  friends,  and  hackling  as  to 
the  price,  and  a  journey  to  and  from  Kentucky,  that  Mr.  Lindsay,  the  pur- 
chaser, was  brought  to  given  even  $3,250  for  him.  We  mention  this  with 
some  degree  of  shame,  as  it  may  fairly  be  set  down  as  so  much 
against  the  judgment  of  the  sporting  men  of  1820  in  our  own  State. 
Col.  Spann,  we  believe,  to  the  day  of  his  death,  never  forgave 
himself  for  dispossessing  himself,  atone  fell  swoop,  for  a  mere  trifle, 
too,  of  the  pride  of  his  native  State,  and  one  of  the  best  horses  that 
ever  gave  character  to  tlie  Ameiican  Turf.  Col.  Spann's  sale  of  Ber- 
trand was,  like  Glaucus,  ''  exchanging  gold  for  iron,  under  the  walls  of 
old  Troy." 

Bertrand  was  taken  to  Kentucky  by  Mi\  Lindsay,  where  he  annuallv 
realised  for  his  fortunate  owner  a  large  sum.  We  have  been  given  to 
understand  by  a  gentleman  from  that  State,  who  had  the  best  oppor- 
tunities of  being  well  informed  upon  the  subject,  that  Bertrand  for  several 
seasons  covered  180  mares,  receiving  mares  into  his  harem  during  every 
month  in  the  year  but  one.  If  this  be  so,  it  is  very  evident  that  the 
owner  of  Bertrand  was  determined  that  he  should  carry  out  the  recom- 
mendation of  a  certain  philosopher,  who  enjoined  it  as  the  [^art  of  wis- 
dom upon  poor,  weak,  fast  decaying  humanity,  to  make  the  most  of  the 
passing  hour,  and  to  "  go  it  v)hil.st  we  ewe  younc/." 

Bertrand  covered  at  Si 00  the  season. 

There  was  another  gentleman,  among  the  best  of  specimens  of  a 
cowitnj  gentleman  of  the  South,  who,  although  he  did  not  fiorure  con- 
spicuously on  the  Charleston  Course,  we  must  not  fail  to  mention  with 
profound  respe(;t;  we  allude  to  that  venerated  patriot,  citizen,  and  sports- 


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man  of  the  old  school,  Gen.  Cantey.     He  was  one  of  that  gallant  band 

"  Who  fought  fior  the  land  their  souls  adored ; 

For  happy  homes  and  altars  free. 
Their  only  talisman,  the  sword  ; 

Their  only  spell-word,  Liberty  !  " 

In  private  life,  too,  all  who  knew  him  loved  him ;  his  hospitality  and 
courtesy  were  proverbial,  indicating,  upon  all  occasions,  the  sterling 
qualities  that  have  ever  characterized  the  country  gentleman  of  the  South. 
This  is  no  place  to  pay  a  tribute  of  respect  to  his  memory  as  a  patriot 
or  citizen,  however  pleasing  such  themes  may  be  ;  to  us  pertains  the 
humbler  task  to  speak  of  him  only  as  a  Racer — a  Brother  of  the  Turf. 
He  had  a  stock  of  horses  well  bred,  and  always  trained  one  or  two  for 
the  Races  at  Camden  and  Statesburg,  and  generally  won  a  purse.  If 
successful,  he  never  put  into  his  own  pocket  what  he  won,  but  gave  it  to 
one  or  other  of  the  Churches  in  Camden,  or  to  the  Orphan  Society.  He 
had  the  prayers  of  the  faithful  that  he  might  win  ;  insiders  and  out- 
siders both  wished  him  luck — the  latter,  on  account  of  their  veneration 
for  Gen.  Zack.  Cantey  ;  the  former,  because  his  winnings  were  always 
devoted  to  charity. 

We  come  now  to  the  impersonation  of  Carolina  chivalry — the  em- 
bodied spirit  of  Carolina  blood  and  Carolina  honor — one  that  may  be 
looked  upon  as  the  main  contributor  in  our  State,  for  many  seasons,  to 
the  legitimate  end  of  racing — the  improvement  of  our  breed  of  horses. 
Who  can  we  mean  but  Col.  Hampton,  tar  outstripping  all  his  predeces- 
sors and  contemporaries  on  the  Turf,  in  the  ardor  of  liis  zeal,  and  the  ex- 
tent of  his  racing  establishment.  No  pilgrim  ever  knelt  at  the  shrine 
of  My  Lady  at  Loretto,  nor  ever  dipt  into  the  river  Jordan  with  greater 
devotion  than  the  Colonel  visits  his  stables  in  the  morning  to  admire 
the  objects  of  his  solicitude,  which,  by  their  condition  and  performances, 
generally  so  well  repay  his  attention.  The  epithet,  "delighting  in 
horses,"  applied  by  Pindar  to  Hiero,  King  of  Syracuse,  who,  on  his  favo- 
rite horse  Phrenicus,  was  the  winner  of  the  Olympic  crown,  may  be 
equally  well  applied  to  him,  for  no  man  can  be  fonder  of  fine  horses  than 
Col.  Hampton.  I  should  like  to  possess,  painted  by  Troye,  the  Colonel's 
likeness  on  his  favorite  "Monarch ;"  what 

"  A  combination,  and  a  form  indeed," 

to  hand  down  to  posterity, 

"To  give  the  world  assurance  of" 
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an  honorable  sportsman,  and  a  high  mettled  Racer  of  the  nineteenth 
century. 

Col.  Hampton  commenced  his  racing  career  in  the  right  way,  with 
none  but  good  ones,  and  has,  in  consequence,  ever  since  been  eminently 
successful.  One  of  his  most  brilliant  campaigns  was  the  season  of  1836, 
when,  at  Columbia,  he  won  three  days,  every  time  he  .started.  He  won 
the  Colt  Stake  with  his  Godolphin  colt  Lath  ;  the  Jockey  Ckib  Purse, 
4  mile  heats,  with  Bay  Maria,  and  the  Hampton  Plate  with  Charlotte 
Russe,  full  sister  to  Trifle.  These  Races  were  won  without  a  broken 
heat,  and  against  good  fields  of  horses.  Immediately  after,  over  the 
Washington  Course,  near  Charleston,  he  was  also  eminently  successful ; 
also  at  Augusta,  Ga.  Kitty  Heath,  3  yrs.,  by  Eclipse,  dam  by  Alfred, 
was  in  his  stable  at  the  time.  Kitty,  with  the  three  mentioned  above, 
started  ten  times  during  the  campaign,  and  lost  but  one  race. 

The  Colonel  deserves  success,  for  he  is  not  only  a  gentleman  of  high 
charaf^ter,  but  of  great  liberality  on  the  Turf.  He  was  for  many  years  a 
very  liberal  buyer,  giving  the  highest  prices  for  horses  that  took  his 
fancy,  and  promised  well  in  other  States,  as  well  as  having  purchased 
largely  at  the  annual  sale  of  the  royal  stud  at  Hampton  Court,  in  Eng- 
land, as  long  as  those  sales  continued.  The  following  enumeration  of 
his  blood  stock  imported  from  England ;  his  native  blood  stock,  and 
horses  in  training,  autumn  of  1842,  may  be  taken  as  a  fair  criterion  by 
which  the  extent  of  his  breeding  and  racing  establishment  may  be 
judged. 

IMPORTATIONS  OF  BLOOD  STOCK  BY  W.  HAMPTON. 

1835. — B.  c.  Monarch,  by  Priam,  out  of  Delphine. 

B.  f.  Emily,  by  Emilius,  out  of  Elizabeth,  by  Rainbow. 

B.  f  Lilly,  by  The  Colonel,  out  of  Fleur  de  Lis,  by  Bourbon,  given  to 
Col.  Fludd. 

B.  f  by  Priam,  out  of  sister  to  Spurn  ante,  sold  Col.  J.  S.  Preston. 

Br.  m,  Emmy,  by  Magistrate,  out  of  Emmeline,  covered  by  Camel, 
sold  Col.  J.  S.  Preston. 

Ch.  m.  Tears,  by  Woful,  out  of  Miss  Stephenson,  covered  by  Defence, 
sold  Col.  J.  S.  Preston. 

Ch.  c.  Foal,  by  Defence,  out  of  Tears,  sold  Col.  J.  S.  Preston. 

1836. — Br.  c,  by  The  Colonel,  out  of  Posthuma,  dead. 

B.  f.  by  Emilius,  out  of  Ada,  (sister  to  Augusta,)  exchanged  with  Col. 
Butler. 

Ch.  f.  The  Queen,  own  sister  to  Monarch,  sold  Dr.  Merritt. 

Ch.  f.  by  The  Colonel,  out  of  Peri,  sold  Gen.  Adams. 
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1837. — B.  c.  Sovereign,  by  Emilius,  out  of  Fleur  de  Lis. 

Ch.  f.  by  Actaeon,  out  of  Ada,  sold  Gen.  Adams. 

Ch.  f.  The  Actress,  by  Tlie  Colonel,  out  of  Miss  Clifton,  sold  Col.  Man- 
ning. 

B.  f.  by  Actaeon,  out  of  Scandal,  sold  Col.  Butler. 

Ch.  f.  by  Langar,  out  of  The  Balkan,  sold  Col.  Manning. 

B.  m.  Lucy,  by  Cain,  out  of  Mare,  by  Bustard. 

1838. — B.  m.  Delphine,  (dara  of  Monarch  and  The  Queen,)  by  Whis- 
ker, out  of  My  Lady,  in  foal  to  Plenipo. 

Ch.  f  Penelope,  by  Plenipo,  out  of  Brazil. 

B.  f.  Milliner,  by  Merchant,  out  of  Surprise. 

B.  f.  by  Emilius,  out  of ,  sold  Gen.  Adams. 

Br.  c.  by  Saracen,  dam  by  Filho-da-Puta,  out  of  Mervinia,  by  Walton 
sold  Capt.  Rowe. 

Ch.  f.  Fury,  by  Pi'iam,  out  of  Sister  to  Ainderby,  sold  Col.  Butler. 

Col.  Hampton  also  owned,  in  1837,  and  bred  from  the  celebrated  im- 
ported stallion  Rowton. 

Monarch  cost  256  guineas. 

F.  by  The  Colonel,  12  0  guineas. 

F.  by  Emilius,  205  guineas. 

F.  by  Priam,  110  guineas. 

NATIVE    STOCK. 

Peggy,  bred  by  Col.  Alston,  by  imp.  Bedford,  out  of  imp.  Peggy. 

1816  :  ch.  f.  Trurapetta,  by  Hephestion,  given  J.  M.  Howell,  Esq. 

1817  :  ch.  f.  by  Hephestion,  died  without  produce. 
1819  :  ch.  c.  Candidate,  by  Virginius,  sold  in  Louisiana. 
Peggy  died  in  1834,  leaving  no  other  produce. 

Pocahontas,  bred  by  Col.  Singleton  in  1819,  got  by  Sir  Archy,  her 
dam  Lottery,  by  Sir  Archy,  out  of  Lottery,  by  imp.  Bedford,  out  of  imp. 
Anvilina. 

1828:  b.  f  by  Bertrand,  given  Gen.  Scott,  of  Alabama,  dam  of  West 
Wind. 

1832  :  b.  c.  Gadsden,  by  Crusader,  broke  down  winning  Produce 
Stake  at  Columbia. 

1833  :  b.  c.  Lath,  by  Godolphin. 

1836  :  br.  f.  Kate  Seaton,  by  Argyle. 
Pocahontas  died  1837,  in  foal  to  Rowton. 

Ch.  m.  Rushlight,  bred  in  1830  by  James  Jackson,  Esq.,  by  Sir  Archy, 
dam  Pigeon,  by  Pacolet,  &c. 

1837  :  b.  c.  by  Chateau  Margeaux,  died  2  yrs .  old. 


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1839  :  c.  by  Priam. 
1841 :  b.  f.  by  Priam. 

Rushlight  given  Col.  Noland  after  weaning  the  Priam  f. 
Bay  Maria,  bred  in  1831  by  Mr.  Hall,  of  New  York,  got  by  Eclipsei 
out  of  Lady  Lightfoot,  &c. ,  &c. 

1838  :  b.  f.  Ruby,  by  Rowton. 

1840  :  b.  f.  Cornelian,  by  Priam. 

1841:  bl.  f.  Sapphire,  by  Monarch.  ' 

1842  :  b.  c.  by  Sovereign. 

Maria  West,  dam  of  Wagner,  <fec.,  got  by  Marion  out  of  Elly  Crump, 
by  Citizen,  &c.,  her  produce. 
1836  :  ch.  f.  Fanny,  by  Eclipse. 

1839  :  b.  f.  Trinket,  by  Andrew. 

1840  :  b.  f.  Chicora,  by  Priam. 
1841 :'  bl.  c.  by  Monarch. 
1842  :  b.  c.  by  Sovereign. 

Imp.  Delpine,  by  Whisker,  out  of  My  Lady,  &c.,  dam  of  Monarch, 
and  The  Queen,  &c.,  has  produced  since  her  importation  : 

1839  :  ch.  c.  Herald,  by  Plenipo. 
•  1840  :  twins,  by  Hybiscus,  dead. 

1841  :  missed  to  Priam. 

1842  :  twins,  by  Sovereign,  dead. 

Imp.  Emily,  bred  as  above  in  1842,  ch.  f.  by  Boston. 

Imp.  m.  Lucy  and  Kitty  Heath,  by  Eclipse,  were  at  one  time  in  Ken- 
tucky breeding  on  shares.  Penelope  in  Georgia,  and  Milliner  in  this 
State,  also  breeding  on  shares. 

Charlotte  Russe,  a  distinguished  race  mare,  died,  leaving  no  produce. 

HORSES  IN  TRAINING. 

Monarch,  (an  experiment.) 

Fanny,  6  yrs.  old,  by  Eclipse,  out  of  Maria  West. 

Rowtonena,  5  yrs.  old,  by  Rowton,  dam  by  Kosciusko. 

Ruby,  4  yrs.  old,  by  Rowton,  out  of  Bay  Maria. 

Luta,  4  yrs.  old,  by  Bertrand,  Jr.,  out  of  Betsy  Richards. 

Herald,  3  yrs.  old,  by  Plenipo,  out  of  Delphine. 

Archy  Mullen,  (Mr.  Caldwell,)  3  yrs.  old,  by  Priam,  out  of  Summer- 
ville's  dam. 

Ch.  f.,  3  yrs.  old,  by  imp.  Emancipation,  out  of  imp.  Lucy  Trinket,  3 
yrs.  old.  by  Andrew,  out  of  Maria  West. 

From  the  above  statement,  it  will  be  seen  that  Monarch,  on  his  return 


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from  Kentucky,  was  put  in  training,  but  only  as  an  experiment.  He 
was  brought  back  from  Kentucky  the  beginning  of  1842,  and  took  his 
old  stand  at  the  Woodlands,  serving  mares  at  the  low  charge  of  $60  the 
season.  The  Colonel  in  this,  as  in  all  his  other  arrangements,  turned 
his  passion  for  the  Turf  to  an  excellent  account,  bringing  this  very  supe- 
rior horse  within  the  means  of  every  breeder,  in  and  out  of  the  State, 
who  may  have  owned  a  well  bred  mare.  We  speak  of  this,  not  so  much 
to  vaunt  the  act  as  one  of  liberality  to  his  neighbors,  as  one  calculated 
to  do  essential  benefit  to  the  future  stock  of  the  country.  In  proportion 
to  the  means  of  the  two  nohle  men,  it  is  almost  equal  to  the  generosity 
of  the  noble  Earl  of  Egremont,  of  whom  it  is  said,  that  he  every  season 
allows  to  his  tenantry  and  poor  neighbors,  the  free  use  of  one  of  his 
stallions. 

We  may  mention  another  instance  of  Col.  Hampton's  characteristic 
liberality — the  presentation  of  a  plate  to  the  Columbia  Jockey  Club,  to 
secure  an  annual  race  over  that  Course,  2  mile  heats,  provided  the  en- 
trances equal  the  value  of  the  plate,  $500.  It  was  won  by  Charlotte 
Russe^  the  entry  of  the  liberal  donor  himself,  and  has  since,  from  year 
to  year,  continued  in  his  possession.  In  compliment  to  the  donor,  it  was 
called  "  The  Hampton  Plate,"  by  the  Club. 

On  another  occasion,  at  Charleston,  February  28,  1837,  Col.  Hamp- 
ton presented  the  proceeds  of  the  Citizens'  Purse,  $1,200,  won  by  his  ch. 
f.  Kitty  Heath,  to  the  South  Carolina  Jockey  Club,  to  aid  in  completing 
certain  improvements  then  in  progress  over  the  Washington  Course. 

The  most  interesting  event  in  the  Colonel's  sporting  career,  was  his 
entry  of  Herald,  in  the  great  Produce  Stake  at  Nashville,  and  the  subse- 
quent Race,  1843.  No  sporting  affair  in  the  country  ever  produced  so 
general  an  interest  as  the  immense  Stake  in  which  this  promising  colt 
was  engaged.  The  number  of  horses  entered,  their  blood,  the  high 
character  of  their  owner,  the  large  amount  of  money  to  be  I'un  for,  could 
not  but  render  the  Peyton  Stakes  an  event  of  no  ordinary  importance. 
The  value  of  the  Stakes  was  higher  than  any  previously  run  for  in  this 
country  ;  higher,  even,  than  many  in  England,  (large  as  their  Produce 
Stakes  always  are)  equalling  in  amount  the  far  famed  Derby  and  Oakes 
at  Epsom,  and  St.  Leger  at  Doncaster. 

There  were  thirty  nominations — on  the  day  of  the  Race  but  four 
made  their  appearance  at  the  Post,  namely  :  produce  of  imp.  Eliza,  by 
Rubens  and  imp.  Glencoe,  entered  by  J.  Kirkman,  of  La. ;  produce  of 
imp.  Delphine,  by  Whisker  and  Plenipo,  entered  by  Col.  Hampton ; 
produce  of  Lilac,  by  imp.  Leviathan  and  imp.  Skylark  ;  and  produce  of 
Black  Maria,  by  Eclipse  and  imp.  Luzborough. 


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The  Race  resulted  in  favor  of  Mr.  Kirkman's  filly,  which  he  conse- 
quently named  Peytona^  in  honor  of  Mr.  Peyton,  who  projected  the 
Race.  Now,  although  Herald,  the  entry  of  Col.  Hampton,  did  not  win 
the  Race,  yet,  having  won  the  second,  and  made  a  near  thing  of  it  at 
the  finish  of  the  fourth  lieat,  it  is  reasonable  to  conclude,  that  had  the 
circumstances  of  this  Race  been  reversed,  had  Peytona  have  been  com- 
pelled to  travel  instead  of  Herald,  subject  to  all  the  risks  of  change  o\ 
climate,  food,  water,  <fec.,  the  result  might  have  been  diff'erent.  To  atone 
for  this  disappointment,  however,  at  the  same  meeting  at  Nashville  Col. 
Hampton  won  the  Trial  Stakes,  2  mile  heats,  with  his  celebrated  filly 
Margaret  Wood,  by  imp.  Priam,  out  of  Maria  West,  beating  a  very 
large  field,  and  securing  a  large  amount,  sufficient  to  reimburse  him  for 
the  heavy  expenses  incurred  in  sending  his  stable  so  far  from  home,  and 
the  large  entry  of  $5,000,  which  he  paid  for  Herald. 

Stuart  was  Col.  Hampton's  trainer  for  many  years.  His  riders  have 
been  Willis,  Gill  Patrick,  Craig,  Stephen  Welch,  all  white  Jockies. 
Among  the  most  distinguished  of  his  black  Jockies  have  been  Lewis, 
from  Kentucky,  Fed,  Jim  Gloster,  Sandy  and  George,  from  Virginia. 
The  celebrated  Joe  Laird,  Fashion's  Jockey,  with  Daniel,  were  once  in 
his  stable. 

In  concluding  this  notice  of  our  distinguished  friend  and  fellow-citizen, 
we  feel,  as  a  South  Carolinian,  unspeakable  pride  in  holding  him  up  as 
an  example  to  all  sportsmen  of  modern  times,  actuated  as  he  has  ever 
been,  in  all  his  doings  on  the  Turf,  by  that  noble  disinterestedness  and 
innate  love  of  sport,  "  for  itself  alone,"  which  prompted  the  equestrians  of 
old  to  start  their  horses  on  the  Olympic  plains.  Honor  was  the  sole 
reward  of  the  victor  then — a  single  crown — of  laurels,  and  not  a  thov^ 
sand  crowns — of  money. 

Gov.  Butler  was  formerly  a  supporter  of  Racing  in  South  Carolina, 
enjoying  a  high  reputation.  He  generally  took  up  and  trained  three  or 
four  horses,  but  I  do  not  recollect,  at  present,  that  he  ever  brought  to 
the  post,  with  buL  one  or  two  exceptions,  any  thing  better  than  a  good 
second  rate  horse.  He  had  philosophy  enough,  however,  to  reconcile  all 
disappointments  to  himself,  under  the  conviction,  that  although  his 
horses  seldom  proved  favorites,  he  was  always  sure  to  be  one  himself; 
and  there  is  a  world  of  consolation  and  good  humor,  even  in  our  worst 
defeats,  to  be  derived  from  such  a  reflection. 

Gov.  Butler,  with  Mr.  McLean,  was  the  principal  owner  of  Argyle,  in 
the  days  of  his  glory,  but  parted  with  two-thirds  of  him  before  his  fatal 
encounter  with  Bascombe,  at  Augusta,  Ga.     I  believe  Col.  Johnson,  of 


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Virginia,  purchased  one-third  of  him,  and  Col.  Hampton  the  other  third. 
So  contident  were  the  owners  of  Argyle  that  he  must  win,  (and  there 
was  a  great  deal  to  justify  this  belief  from  his  previous  trials,)  that  the 
Race  was  booked  as  a  certainty.  The  calculations,  however,  that  are 
made  on  such  occasions,  are  always  dangerous.  They  do  very  well  as 
long  as  Time  is  a  horse's  only  competitor,  but  atford  no  ground  of  rea- 
sonable conjecture  as  to  what  another  and  a  better  horse  may  do.  The 
backers  of  Argyle  concluded  that  as  he  could  run  his  first  heat  under 
eight  minutes,  with  a  strong  pull,  it  was  not  probable  that  Bascombe 
■would  beat  him.  So  with  the  owners  of  Boston  in  the  late  memorable 
match  at  New  York — a  match  which  must  make  immortal  both  the  vic- 
tor and  the  vanquished,  and  hand  their  names  down  to  posterity  as  hav- 
ing made,  up  to  that  time,  the  then  quickest  4  mile  heat  on  record  in 
America — they  knew,  and  stated  previously,  as  it  appears  from  "  The 
Spirit  of  the  Times,"  that  Boston  could  and  would  run  the  first  heat  in  7 
m.  34  sec.  Now,  these  were  high  expec^tations  to  go  upon,  to  be  sure^ 
but  they  seemed  to  forget  what  a  few  hours'  experience  demonstrated  to 
their  cost,  tliat  in  Racing  "  some  things,"  as  Sam  Patch  said,  "  could  be 
done  as  well  as  others."  It  remained  for  Fashion  to  prove  that  although 
Boston  might  run  the  heat  in  7  m.  34  sec,  she  could  do  it  just  as  ea- 
sily in  Y  m.  32  sec. 

Col.  Paul  Fitzsimons,  although  living,  during  the  last  years  of  hia 
life,  on  the  Georgia  side  of  the  line,  yet  from  the  strong  ties  of  birth  and 
blood  which  bound  him  to  us,  was  always  regarded  as  a  Carolinian.  He 
was  "  otf  and  on  "  the  Turf  for  a  considerable  time,  both  in  this  State 
and  Georgia,  and  was  a  very  useful  member  of  the  ditferent  Clubs  in  the 
two  States.  Like  many  another  companion  we  have  ganged  along  with 
in  our  pilgrimage,  he,  alas  !  has  passed  to  that  bourne  whence  no  travel- 
ler returns  to  tell  the  tale  of  darkness.  He  still  lives,  however,  in  our 
fondest  recollections — he  will  ever  live  in  the  memory  of  those  he  left 
behind  him  as  a  liberal  sportsman  and  hospitable  gentleman. 

Capt.  RowE,  of  Orangeburg,  deserves  honorable  mention  in  the  calen- 
dar of  those  who  have  contributed  to  maintain  the  high  standing  of  the 
Carolina  Turf  As  the  owner  of  Vertumnus,  and  many  others  that,  by 
his  great  experience  and  judgment  of  condition,  he  contrived  lo  get 
in  the  best  possible  order,  he  was  always  hard  to  beat,  and  has  fre- 
quently been  a  winner  at  all  distances.  Not  long  before  his  death,  we 
regret  to  say,-  he  met  with  a  serious  loss  by  fire.  The  principal  buildings 
on  his  plantation  were  destroyed — among  the  number,  his  training  stable, 


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in  whicli  were  most  of  his  valuable  horses.  All  that  were  in  the  stable 
were  burnt  or  seriously  injured.  He  lost  a  very  fine  chesnut  filly,  by 
Rowton,  out  of  Lady  Morgan,  on  this  disastrous  occasion. 

BLOODED  STOCK   BELONGING    TO    CAPT.  DONALD  ROVTE,  ORANGEBURG,  S.  C. 

1.  Sally  Richardson  was  got  by  Kosciusko,  her  dam  by  Commerce, 
her  g.  dam  by  Little  Billy,  and  her  g.  g.  dam  by  imp.  Bedford.  Kosci- 
usko was  got  by  Sir  Archy,  his  dam  Lottery,  by  imp.  Bedford,  out  of  the 
imp.  m.  Anvilina.  Commerce's  pedigree  is  not  at  hand  ;  he  was,  how- 
ever, a  thoroughbred  horse.  Little  Billy  was  by  Ball's  Florizel,  his^dam 
by  Bay  Yankee.  Bedford's  pedigree  is  too  well  established  and  known 
to  need  further  notice. 

It  will  be  perceived  that  the  ancestors  of  Sally  Richardson  were  very 
successful  racers  at  all  distances.  Commerce  was  a  distinguished  4  mile 
horse,  beating  all  his  competitors,  and  leaving  the  Turf  with  a  high 
character. 

Sally  Richardson'' s  Produce : 

1832  :  b.  f.  by  Marshal  Ney,  he  by  John  Richards,  out  of  the  Meg  of 
Wapping. 

1834  :  b.  c.  by  Duke  Argyle,  he  by  Monsieur  Tonson,  out  of  Thistle. 

1835  :  ch.  f.  by  Duke  Argyle,  dead. 

1836  :  b.  f.  Salkahatchie,  by  Vertumnus,  he  by  Eclipse,  dam  by  Defi- 
ance. 

1837  :  b.  f.  Arcadia,  by  Vertumnus,  he  by  Eclipse,  dam  by  Defiance. 

2.  Lady  Morgan  was  got  by  John  Richards,  and  foaled  on  the  26th 
March,  1831  ;  her  dam  Matchless  was  got  by  imp.  Expedition,  her  g. 
dam  by  Bela  Badger's  Sir  Solomon,  her  g.  g.  dam  Aurora,  by  imp.  Hon- 
est John,  g.  g.  g.  dam  Zelippa,  by  imp.  Messenger,  g.  g.  g.  g.  dam  Dido, 
by  imp.  Bay  Richmond,  g.  g.  g.  g.  g.  dam  Slammerkin,  by  imp.  Wil- 
dair,  g.  g.  g.  g.  g.  g.  dam,  (imp.,)  by  old  Cub. 

She  is  with  foal  by  Rowton,  and  is  expected  to  drop  it  daily. 
Ch.  f  Marcia,  burnt  in  stable. 

3.  Leannah,  a  b.  m.,  was  got  by  Seagull,  he  by  old  Sir  Archy,  his  dam, 
old  Nancy  Air,  by  imp.  Bedford,  her  dam  Leannah's,  by  Whipster,  he  by 
Cook's  Whip,  his  dam  by  Hambletonian,  (see  Turf  Register,  vol.  6,  pp. 
Ill  and  427, for  pedigree  of  Whip  and  Hambletonian;)  his,  Whipster's, 
g.  dam  by  imp.  Tup,  he  by  Javelin,  &c. ;  g,  g.  dam  by  Hall's  Union,  he 
by  imp.  Slim,  and  he  by  bay  Babraham,  &c.;  g,  g.  g.  dam  by  Ariel ;  Le- 
annah's g.  dam  Comet,  by  Col.  Taylor's  Yorick,  her  g.  g.  dam  by  Gate- 


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wood's  Shark,  he  by  imp.  Shark;  her  g.  g.  g.  dam,  the  dam  of  the 
Shark  mare,  was  brought  to  Kentucky,  from  Virginia,  at  an  early  day. 
She  was  a  fine  mare,  and  was  highly  prized  for  her  blood-like  appearance 
and  her  stock.  : 

4.  Belbroughton,  b.  c,  by  Pennoyer,  out  of  Sally  Mulrine,  foaled  in 
183Y. 

5.  Hardy  Howel,  by  Pennoyer,  out  of  Kitty,  by  Hephestion. 

Col.  Ferguson  has  appeared  occasionally  on  the  Turf,  butas  his  en- 
tries for  many  years  have  not  been  numerous,  "  few  and  far  between," 
he  may  be  considered  as  having  almost  retired  from  the  Turf.  He  is  a 
very  fine  rider,  however,  and  regarded  as  an  excellent  judge  of  horse- 
flesh.    The  following  composed  his  principal  stock : 

Virginia  (formerly  Coquette)  bred  by  John  Richardson,  Esq.,  foaled 
in  1813,  got  by  Virginius  out  of  Dorocles  (by  the  imported  horse  Shark) 
grandam  by  the  imported  horse  Clockfast,  who  was  also  the  dam  of  Gen. 
Hampton's  Maria,  his  celebrated  grey  filly,  and  of  Vignt-un. 

•  1819  :  b.  c.  Dockon,  by  Pocotaligo — James  Ferguson. 
1821 :  br.  f  Onea,  by  Pocotaligo  do. 

1822  :  b.  f.  Lalla  Rookh,  by  Kosciusko       do. 

*  1823  :  b.  c.  Pulaski,  by  Kosciusko  do. 

1824  :  br.  f.  Jessamine,  by  Dockon  do. 

1825  :  br.  c.  DeKalb,  by  Kosciusko.  do. 
1826:  br.  f  Isora,  by  Dockon                     do. 

1827  :  ch.  c.  Lafayette,  by  Kosciusko  do. 

1828  :  b.  f.  Callista,  by  Crusader  do. 
Died  in  1829,  in  foal  to  Crusader. 

Onea,  bred  by  James  Ferguson,  foaled  in  1821,  got  by  Pocotaligo  out 
of  Virginia,  grandam  Dorocles,  g.  g.  dam  Clockfast  mare,  g.  g.  g.  dam 
Burwell's  Maria,  &c. 

1830  :  b.  c.  Saladin,  by  Crusader — James  Ferguson. 

1831  :  b.  f.  Edith,  by  Crusader  do. 

1832  :  br.  c.  Nullifier,  by  Lafayette         do. 
Died  in  1833,  in  foal  to  Crusader. 

Jessamine,  bred  by  James  Ferguson,  foaled  in  1854,  got  by  Dockon 
out  of  Virginia,  grandam  Dorocles,  g.  g.  dam  Clockfast  mare,  g.  g.  g. 
dam  Burwell's  Maria. 

1829  :  ch.  c.  Sam  Patch,  by  Steuben — Jas.  Ferguson. 

1830  :  Missed  to  Crusader. 

1834  :  ch.  I  by  Lafayette— Mr.  Stark. 

Young  Peggy,  bred  by  J.  M.  Howell,  Esq.,  foaled  in   1825,  got  by 


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Kosciusko,  her  clam  Trumpetta  by  Hephestion,  grandam  Peggy  by  Bed- 
ford, g.  g.  dam  imported  Peggy,  who  was  bred  by  the  Earl  of  Clermont, 
and  was  got  by  Trurapator  out  of  his  Herod  mare,  own  sister  to  Post- 
master. 

1829  :  Twins  by  Crusader — Col.  Hampton. 

1830  :  ch.  c.  by  Crusader  do. 

1832  :  ch.  c.  by  Crusader  do. 

1833  :  ch.  c.  by  Godolphin  do. 

1834  :  ch.  f.  by  Godolphin  do. 

1835  :  ch.  c.  by  Luzborough  do. 
1836:  Missed  to  Rowton  do. 

1837  :  Missed  to  Rowton  do. 

1839  :  ch.  f.  Millwood  by  Lafayette — James  Ferguson. 
Died  in  1841. 

Eliza,  the  produce  of  Zephyrina  in  England,  in  1833,  bred  by  the 
Rev.  C.  Dodsley  of  Swimerton  Rectory,  got  by  Filho-da-Puta,  dam 
Zephyrina  by  Middlethorpe,  out  of  Pagoda  by  Sir  Peter ;  Rupee  by 
Coriander,  &c.,  and  imported  into  Charleston,  South  Carolina,  in  the 
ship  China,  Capt.  Larmour,  in  1838. 

1838  :  Missed  to  Discount,  by  Bonner. 

1839  :  ch.  f.  Pneuma,  by  Emancipation. 

1840  :  ch.  f.  by  LaFayette,  foaled  dead. 

1841  :  b.  f  Breeze,  by  Monarch. 

1842  :  Missed  to  Steuben. 

1842  :  br.  c.  Boreas,  by  LaFayette. 

Eliza,  carrying  8  stone  4  lb.,  started  once  in  England  as  a  3  year  old, 
in  May,  1836,  at  Chester,  and  was  beaten  by  Mr.  Prile's  ch.  c.  Statford, 
8  stone  Y  lb.,  by  Memnon,  out  of  Sarsaparilla. 

Irvinia,  bred  by  Col.  Richard  Singleton,  foaled  in  1818,  got  by  Vir- 
ginius,  out  of  Pandora,  by  Belair,  grandam  by  Soldier,  g.  g.  dam  by 
Oscar,  g.  g.  g.  dam  by  Merry  Tom,  g.  g.  g.  g.  dam  by  Crawford,  out  of 
a  Silver  eye  mare. 

1825  :  ch.  c.  Steuben,  by  Kosciusko — Dr.  John  Wragg. 

1828  :  ch.  c.  Wade  Hampton  by  Bertrand         do. 

Jessamine,  the  produce  of  Virginia  in  1824,  was  owned  by  Mr.  Roach, 
who  bred  her  to  Argyle  and  Rowton. 

Isora,  the  produce  of  Virginia  in  1826,  was  once  owned  by  Mr.  Jas. 
L.  Clark,  who  bred  her  to  Godolphin,  afterwards  she  became  the  pro- 
perty of  Gen.  Shelton,  of  Union  District,  who  bred  her  to  Rowton. 

Callista,  the  produce  of  Virginia  in  1828,  was  sold  to  Gen.  Scott,  of 
Alabama,  and  produced  a  good  racer  by  Potomac,  called  Romulus. 


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Edith,  the  produce  of  Onea  in  1831,  was  owned  by  Dr.  Nott,  of 
Union  District,  and  has  been  in  the  breeding  stud. 

Col.  Ferguson  is  as  well  versed  in  Jockey  lore  as  any  other  man  in 
our  State,  and  considered  good  authority  on  all  mooted  points.  When, 
after  the  exploits  of  Clara  Fisher,  more  especially  her  race  with  Bonnets 
o'  Blue  in  1832,  the  sporting  community  were  inquiring  for  her  pedi- 
gree, about  which  there  was  much  doubt,  not  as  to  its  quality,  but  its 
certainty,  it  was  by  Col.  Ferguson's  spirit  of  inquiry  that  the  doubt  was 
removed,  and  the  question  finally  settled.  The  dam  of  Clara  Fisher 
having  been  bred  by  the  late  Gen.  John  McPherson,  to  several  members 
of  his  family  did  Col.  Ferguson  apply  for  information.  Mr.  James  R. 
Pringle,  late  collector  of  the  port  of  Charleston,  and  son-in-law  of  Gen. 
McPherson,  made  repeated  searches  among  the  General's  papers,  but  to 
no  purpose.  At  length  he  accidentally  found  the  following  paper  in 
the  General's  own  handwriting,  and  which  is  now  in  the  possession  of 
Col.  Ferguson  : 

"Juliet  foaled  9th 'March,  1798,  a  brown  bay  filly  (no  white  about 
her)  got  by  Marplot.  I  judge  she  will  prove  a  racer.  Juliet  by  the 
imported  horse  Mexican — her  dam  by  old  Fi'ier." 

The  above  can  be  no  other  than  the  pedigree  of  Roxana,  the  dam  of 
Clara  Fisher.  Col.  Singleton  purchased  Roxana  from  Gen.  McPherson ; 
she  was  bred  by  the  General,  and  got  by  Marplot  out  of  Juliet — all  are 
now  agreed  on  these  points :  besides,  the  records  show  that,  according 
to  an  entrance  made  by  the  General  himself,  Roxana  was  entered  and 
ran  as  a  3  year  old,  in  the  spring  of  1802,  over  the  Washington  Course. 

From  his  favorite  brood  mare  Virginia,  by  Virginius,  out  of  Dorocles, 
by  the  imported  horse  Shark,  Col.  Ferguson  has  bred  several  colts  and 
fillies;  among  the  number  in  1827,  ch.  c.  LaFayette  by  Kosciusko. 
This  horse  has  stood  to  mares  in  St.  John's  Parish,  Berkley,  for  several 
seasons.  Col.  Ferguson  has  also  bred  from  Onea,  sister  to  Dockon,  out 
of  Virginia,  and  Jessamine,  her  full  sister.  Both  of  these  mares  have' 
produced  colts  by  Crusader. 

Mr.  SiNKLER  was  for  many  years  a  steady  and  zealous  supporter  of 
the  Carolina  Turf;  his  horses  were  generally  trained  for  Ihe  Pineville 
and  Charleston  Races.  At  the  former  he  was  frequently  a  winner,  and 
at  the  latter  he  came  in  for  a  tolerable  share  of  distinction.  Among 
the  horses  of  his  own  breeding,  Rienzi  and  Jeannette  Berkley,  both  by 
Bertrand,  Jr.,  out  of  Carolina,  by  Buzzard,  were  the  best.  He  had  in 
his  stable,  during  the  campaign  of  1839,  Santa  Anna,  and  a  bay  filly 
by  Humphrey  Clinker,  out  of  imported  Mania  by  Figaro.     Kate  Con- 


verse,  by  Non  Plus,  out  of  Daisy  by  Kosciusko,  ran  honestly,  and  won 
several  good  purses  for  him.  This  superior  mare  passed  into  other 
hands,  and  formed  part  of  Mr.  Singleton's  stud.  Mr.  Sinkler  was  fortu- 
nate to  possess  one  of  the  most  faithful  colored  grooms  in  the  State.  It 
is  due  to  the  integrity  and  character  of  this  man  to  notice  him  favor- 
ably in  this  place.  In  his  attachment  to  his  master,  and  devotedness  to 
his  true  interests,  he  reminds  us  of  "old  Cornelius" — not  the  Centurion, 
but  the  trainer  for  Col.  Singleton.  I  presume  no  one  in  the  habit  for 
the  last  thirty-five  years  of  attending  the  Charleston  Races,  but  recol- 
lects "old  Cornelius."  He  was  in  South  Carolina  what  "old  Charles" 
was  in  Virginia — a  feature  in  the  crowd  upon  a  race  field. 

This  sketch  of  Mr.  Sinkler  (and  also  that  of  Col.  Singleton — in  fact, 
all  of  the  preceding  notices),  were  written  and  originally  published  some 
years  ago.  Death  has  since  been  busy  among  our  friends,  and  has  left 
a  melancholy  chasm — all  are  now  gone  of  the  good  old  stock,  or  have 
retired  from  the  field  of  their  glory.  Time,  that  indefatigable,  untiring 
old  courser,  will  neither  stand  still  himself,  nor  allow  others  to  do  so. 
Many  young  men,  however,  are  annually  making  their  appearance  on 
the  Turf,  to  fill  up,  as  far  as  they  can,  the  vacant  places.  I  was  just 
about  to  write  the  name  of  M.  R.  Singletok — but  memory,  sad  mem- 
ory, whispers,  we  shall  see  him  no  more  among  us ; — but  Mr.  Richard 
C.  Richardson,  a  son  of  the  late  Col.  James  B.  Richardson,  promises  to 
take  the  place,  by-and-bye,  of  his  lamented  father.  He  has  several 
young  things  coming  forward  from  season  to  season  He  has  been 
breeding  from  Amy,  by  Non  Plus,  and  Zoe,  by  Rowton,  out  of  the  dam 
of  Little  Venus ;  also  Ora,  by  Yeoman,  out  of  a  full  sister  to  Transport. 

The  good  name  of  Wm.  Lowndes  has  frequently,  of  late  years,  ap- 
peared among  the  entries ;  also,  Wm.  C.  Heyward,  J.  W.  Mazyck,  J.  E. 
Edings,  J.  B.  Moore,  Frank  Hampton,  P.  G.  Stoney,  W.  H.  B.  Richard- 
son, Dr.  C.  Fitzsimons,  J.  M.  Howell,  C.  T.  Howell,  John  Hunt^,  and 
others,  who  possess  the  means  and  the  leisure  to  indulge  in  the  recrea- 
tions of  the  Turf. 


PART    VIII. 


|l«ks  of  tljt  $m\\  Carolma  lodieg  CliA: 


ADOPTED  FEBRUARY,  1824,  REVISED  JANUARY  1,  1853, 


Ex  hac   luce  affluentes  ordinal  annos. — Horace. 
Ordo  actionum — Recte  atque  ordine. — Cicero. 


Whereas,  to  import  into  and  encourage  a  good  breed  of  horses  in 
this  State,  must  at  all  times  he  highly  beneficial  to  the  citizens  thereof, 
and  essentially  so  in  case  of  war,  as  the  means  of  forming  serviceable 
bodies  of  cavalry,  for  defence  of  the  extended  limits  of  the  same  :  the 
subscribers,  with  these  views,  have  agreed  to  form  themselves  into  a  So- 
ciety, by  the  name  of  The  South  Carolina  Jockey  Club. 

RULE    I. 

The  Club  shall  meet  on  the  Saturday  preceding  the  first  Wednesday 
in  February  annually,  in  Charleston,  at  such  place  as  the  Stewards  shall 
appoint.  The  regular  Races  shall  be  run  on  the  first  Wednesday  in 
Februarj^,  and  the  two  following  days,  in  every  year,  in  the  city  of 
Charleston.  The  first  day's  Race  shall  be  4  mile  heats — the  horses  to 
start  precisely  at  one  o'clock,  and  to  carry  the  following  weights — 
(mares,  fillies  and  geldings  to  be  allowed  3  lbs.)  : 

Aged  horses 126  lbs. 

6  years  old 120     " 

5  years  old 112     " 

4  years  old 102     " 

3  years  old 90     " 

2  years  old A  feather. 

Distance  Post,  lYO  yards,  for  4  mile  heats. 

RULE    II. 

The  second  day's  Race  shall  be  3  mile  heats — horses  starting  at  the 
same  hour,  and  carrying  the  same  weights  as  on  the  first  day.  Dis- 
tance Post,  130  yards. 


The  third  day's  Race  shall  be  2  mile  heats — the  weights  and  hour  of 
starting  the  same  as  on  the  first  and  second  days.  Distance  Post,  90 
yards. 

The  Distance  Post  for  1  mile  heats  to  be  50  yards. 

Best  three  in  five — 70  yards. 

Any  person  who  starts  a  horse,  mare,  filly,  colt  or  gelding,  for  either 
of  the  purses,  whose  rider  shall  caary  more  than  2  lbs.  over  his  proper 


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weight,  shall  declare  it  before  starting,  to  the  Judges  or  Stewards,  who 
are  to  proclaim  it  at  the  Post.  Any  person  neglecting  or  refusing  to 
make  such  declaration,  his  horse,  mare,  colt,  gelding  or  filly  shall  be 
considered  as  distanced,  and  shall  not  be  permitted  to  start  for  any 
other  heal. 

RULE    IV. 

Horses  shall  be  entered  with  the  Stewards  by  sealed  entries,  before  9 
o'clock  on  the  evening  previous  to  the  race  for  which  they  are  to  con- 
tend.    No  Post  entrance,  except  for  the  second  race  on  Saturday. 


Any  member  entering  a  horse  shall,  at  the  same  time,  produce  a  cer- 
tificate, or  such  proof  as  may  be  thought  satisfactory  to  the  Stewards,  of 
the  age  of  the  horse,  and  pay  down  the  entrance  money,  which  shall  be 

Twenty  dollars  for  the  first  day  ; 

Fifteen  dollars  for  the  second  day ; 

Ten  dollars  for  the  third  day  ; 
and  an  enti'ance  of  five  dollars  per  mile  for  every  other  race  run  under 
the  direction  of  the  Club.  And  the  horse  that  shall,  on  either  day,  win 
two  heats,  shall  be  entitled  to  the  purse,  and  shall  not  be  permitted  to 
start  for  the  purse  on  either  of  the  succeeding  days.  But  in  the  event 
of  a  horse  starting  without  a  competitor,  the  Judges  may,  at  their  dis- 
cretion, dispense  with  a  walk  over. 


The  Judges  shall  cause  fifteen  minutes  notice  to  be  given  before  the 
hour  of  starting  ;  and  such  horses  as  are  ready  at  the  hour  appointed, 
shall  not  be  obliged  to  wait  for  those  that  are  not  ready. 

RULE    VII. 

Fifteen  minutes  to  be  allowed  between  mile  heats,  twenty  minutes 
between  mile  heats  best  3  in  5,  and  half  an  hour  for  rubbing  down  be- 
tween all  other  heats.  Four  Judges  shall  be  appointed  by  the  presiding 
officer,  at  the  anniversary  meeting  preceding  the  Races  (one  of  whom 
to  be  designated  and  to  act  as  the  Starting  Judge),  whose  duty  it  shall 
be,  together  with  the  President  and  Stewards,  or  a  majority  of  them 
that  are  present,  to  settle  all  disputes ;  and  their  determination  shall  be 
final.  In  ^11  cases,  such  determination  shall  be  made  before  the  parties 
leave  the  ground. 


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RULE    VIII. 


Any  member  or  members  of  this  Club  may  start  a  horse,  although 
the  same  be  not  his  or  their  property  ;  and  he  or  they  are  solely  to 
receive  the  benefit  of  the  purse,  should  they  win  :  Provided,  That  two 
horses  shall  never  be  run  from  one  stable  for  the  same  purse.  A  decla- 
ration to  this  effect  to  be  made  openly  in  the  Club,  upon  honor,  before 
starting. 

RULE    IX. 

No  person  shall  start  more  than  one  horse  for  either  purse ;  nor  shall 
the  owners,  or  persons  entering  any  two  horses  for  the  same  purse,  be 
permitted  to  run  in  partnership,  under  the  penalty  of  forfeiting  the 
purse,  to  the  owner  or  person  entering  the  horse  that  shall  come  iu 
next. 

RULK    X. 

All  Riders  to  be  weighed  at  coming  in,  in  rotation  ;  and  if  any  Rider 
shall  presume  to  cross,  jostle,  strike,  or  use  any  foul  play  whatever  (pro- 
vided the  same  be  so  adjudged  by  the  President,  Judges  and  Stewards), 
such  Rider  shall  be  prohibited  from  riding  thereafter,  for  any  of  the 
purses  given  by  this  Club ;  and  the  master,  owner,  or  person  employing 
such  Rider,  shall  not  receive  such  purse,  should  he  win  it ;  but  the  same 
shall  be  ffiven  to  the  second  horse  in  the  race. 


Nine  members  shall  constitute  a  quorum  to  transact  business.    AH 
extra  meetings  to  be  called  by  public  notice. 


The  Club  will  annually  appropriate,  by  resolution,  a  fund  for  the 
regular  Jockey  Club  Purses,  and  will  also  give  for  a  second  race  on 
Wednesday,  $100,  mile  heats  {provided,  the  Hutchinson  Stakes  for  that 
day  are  not  filled) ;  on  Thursday,  South  Carolina  Stakes,  mile  heats,  for 
2  year  olds,  to  carry  80  lbs.,  allowing  3  lbs.  <o  fillies  and  geldings;  on 
Friday,  $150,  2  mile  heats  (provided  the  Hutchinson  Stakes  for  that 
day  are  not  filled)  ;  and  on  Saturday,  $300,  a  dash  of  3  miles.  The 
horse  that  shall,  on  either  day,  win  either  of  the  above  second  Races, 
shall  not  be  permitted  to  start  again,  exr;ept  for  the  Saturday's  second 
Race,  or  for  one  of  the  regular  purses.  Weights  for  age  on  each  day, 
and  the  entries  to  be  made  according  to  the  4th  Rule,  except  for  Sat- 
urday's second  Race,  which  shall  be  a  Post  entrance.  By  the  expres- 
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sion  "  Second  Race,"  in  this  Rule,  it  is  understood  that  two  or  more 
horses  shall  compete  for  the  said  Race. 

The  Club  will  also  open  each  year  the  "  Hutchinson  Stakes,"  as 
follows : 

Sweepstakes  for  3  year  olds,  2  mile  heats,  $260  ;  |50  if  declared  be- 
fore the  1st  November  (after  the  opening)  $100  after  that  time — to 
close  on  the  1st  of  May  in  each  year.  If  two  or  more  start,  the  Club 
to  add  $500.     The  Race  to  be  run  on  the  Friday  of  Race  week. 

Sweepstakes  for  3  year  olds — mile  heats,  conditions  as  for  the  above. 
The  Race  to  be  run  on  the  Wednesday  of  Race  week.  If  two  or  more 
start,  the  Club  to  add  $200. 

RULE    XIII. 

Every  member  of  this  Club  shall  pay  to  the  Treasurer,  the  sum  of 
forty  dollars,  annually,  and  shall  give  him,  at  the  same  time,  his  note, 
payable  the  following  year,  for  the  next  annual  subscription.  The  form 
of  note  to  be  as  follows: 

On  the  day  of  18,7  promise  to  pay  to   the  order  of 

Treasurer  of  the  South  Carolina  Jockey  Club,  forty  dollars,  being  the 
amount  of  rny  subscription  for  the  year  1%     .         \^Siyned'\         A.  B. 

The  blank  to  be  filled  up  to  correspond  with  the  Friday  precefling 
the  Race  week,  so  as  to  fall  due  and  payable  upon  the  Monday  of  the 
Race  week.  And  upon  the  neglect  or  refusal  of  any  member  to  pay 
the  Treasurer  the  amount  of  his  note  when  due;  such  note  shall  be 
placed  in  the  hands  of  the  Solicitor  of  the  Club  for  recovery  ;  and 
should  the  Treasurer  neglect  or  refuse  to  place  any  notes  that  shall  re- 
main due  and  unpaid,  at  the  period  above  specified,  in  the  hands  of  the 
Solicitor,  he  shall  be  dismissed  from  his  office  for  neglect  of  duty.  On 
the  Saturday  of  the  Race  week,  the  Treasurer  is  to  report  to  the  Presi- 
dent the  names  of  such  persons  as  have  not  paid  their  notes;  in  default 
of  which  the  Treasurer  shall  be  responsible  for  all  losses  which  may 
arise  from  not  having  acted  as  above  directed. 


If  any  member  shall  die  during  the  existence  of  this  Club,  his  note 
shall  be  destroyed  in  the  presence  of  the  Club. 

RULE    XV. 

The  members,  after  subscribing  to  these  Rules,  shall  make  choice  of 
a  President,  Vice-President,  Treasurer,  Secretary,  Solicitor,  a  Resident 
13* 


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Steward,  and  eight  Stewards,  to  continue  in  office  one  year,  ending  on 
the  Saturday  of  the  regular  Race  week,  at  which  time  a  Hke  election 
shall  take  place  ;  also  a  Committee  of  five  members  shall  be  annually 
nominated  by  the  Chair,  whose  duty  shall  be  to  keep  the  Course,  paling, 
buildings,  (fee,  in  sufficient  repair;  and  be  authorized  to  order  any  im- 
provement that  may  be  necessary,  and  to  enter  into  contracts  for  such 
purpose  on  behalf  of  the  Club,  not  exceeding  the  sum  of  $500.  The 
officers  of  the  Club  for  the  time  being,  to  be  ex-officio  members  of  said 
Committee. 

RULE    XVI. 

The  duties  of  the  Stewards  shall  be  as  follovps :  To  weigh  all  Riders 
just  before  notice  is  given  for  mounting,  and  to  keep  an  eye  on  them  till 
started  ;  to  receive  the  riders  as  soon  as  they  pull  up,  on  coming  in,  and 
have  them  in  their  possession  till  weighed.  Four  of  the  Stewaixls  to  be 
so  posted  round  the  Course  as  to  detect  any  foul  riding.  The  others  on 
horseback  to  assist  the  officers  in  keeping  the  Course  clear.  The  Stew- 
ards shall  be  mounted,  except  when  their  duties  require  them  on  foot, 
and  shall  be  distinguished  by  a  red  rose  or  knot,  or  such  other  badge  as 
they  may  decide  on  among  themselves.  To  provide  a  Jockey  Club 
dinner  on  the  Wednesday  of  the  Race  week,  and  suitable  provisions  for 
the  Club  at  their  evening  meetings.  The  dinner  and  other  expenses  of 
the  Club  in  the  city  not  to  exceed  one  thousand  dollars, 

RULE    XVII. 

The  managers  of  the  ball  are  to  provide  a  ball  and  supper  on  the  Fri- 
day evening  of  the  Race  week,  and  shall  form  a  list  of  all  strangers,  and 
ladies  resident,  the  gentlemen  of  whose  families  are  not  members  of  the 
Club,  and  to  take  proper  precaution  that  invitations  are  sent  out  in  due 
time;  to  divide  the  duties  among  themselves,  so  that  none  be  omitted, 
and  strangers  be  properly  introduced. 

To  announce  the  supper  to  the  presiding  officers,  that  they  may  lead 
down  such  strangers  or  other  ladies  as  may  be  entitled  to  this  distinc- 
tion ;  and  that  the  managers  be  designated  by  such  badge  as  they  may 
decide  among  themselves. 

RULE    XVIII, 

The  Starting  Judges  shall  start  the  horses  at  the  proper  time;  cause 
the  time  to  be  kept  accurately,  both  with  respect  to  the  runnino-^  the 
intervals  Ijetween  heats,  and  report  the  former  each  evening,  with  any 
incident  that  may  occur,  to  the  Secretary,  for  insertion  in  the  journals, 


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RULE    XIX. 

Gentlemen  residents  of  this  State  shall  not  be  considered  as  entitled 
to  any  of  the  hospitalities  of  this  Club,  exeeptin;?  youn<y  gentlemen  re- 
turning from  their  collegiate  studies  or  travels  for  the  first  year;  annual 
visitors  shall  not  bo  considered  as  strangers  after  the  first  year.  The 
Governor  of  the  State  and  Suite,  and  Lieutenant  Governor,  the  .Judges 
of  the  State,  Revolutionary  officers  and  officers  of  the  Army  and  Navy, 
and  all  members  of  the  diplomatic  corps,  sliall  be  entitled  to  invitations; 
also  officers  of  Citadel  and  Magazine  guard,  and  such  other  persons  as 
the  officers  of  the  Club  may  direct. 

RULE    XX. 

The  Treasurer  is  to  collect  JiU  notes  due.  He  is  to  keep  an  exact  ac- 
count of  the  purses  given  by  the  Club,  or  by  any  other  person,  and  by 
whom  won  ;  the  Treasurer  to  give  bond  to  the  President  of  the  Club, 
with  good  security  for  82,500,  and  to  be  allowed  2^  per  cent,  upon  all 
sums  collected  for  the  use  of  the  Club,  in  addition  to  the  privileges  of 
membership. 

RULE    XXI. 

Any  gentleman  not  a  member  of  this  Club,  nor  a  citizen  of  the  State, 
desirous  of  entering  a  horse  for  either  of  the  purses  to  be  given  by  this 
Club,  shall  be  at  liberty  to  do  so  on  paying  to  the  Steward  the  sum  of 
forty  dollars  for  the  first  day^,  thirty  dollars  for  the  .second  day,  and 
twenty  dollars  for  the  third  day,  and  an  entrance  of  ten  dollars  per  mile 
for  every  other  race  run  under  the  direction  of  the  Club,  provided  such 
entering  be  made  in  accordance  witli  the  4tb  Rule. 

RULE    XXII. 

No  horse,  mare,  filly,  colt,  or  gelding,  shall  be  qualified  to  start  for 
the  Handicap  Race,  on  Saturday  of  the  Race  week,  unless  such  horse, 
mare,  colt,  filly,  or  gelding,  shall  have  been  run  either  for  the  Citizens' 
Purse,  the  annunl  and  Hutchinson  Sweepstakes,  for  colts  and  fillies,  3 
years  old,  or  for  one  of  the  regular  Jockey  Club  Purses,  of  4,  3,  and  2 
mile  heats. 

RULE  xxiir. 

Whenever  any  gentleman  shall  wish  to  become  a  member  of  this 
Club,  hi.s  name  shall  be  proposed  by  the  Chairman,  on  which  he  shall 
be  ballotted  for,  and  should  there  not  be  more  than  lour  black  balls,  he 
shall  be  duly  admitted.     All  resignations  shall  be  in  writing,  and  ad- 


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dressed  to  the  presiding  officer  of  the  Club ;  but  as  it  is  highly  import- 
ant to  the  welfare  of  the  Club,  that  its  funds  for  the  succeeding  year 
should  be  as  distinctly  ascertained  as  possible,  no  resignation  shall  be 
received  or  accepted,  unless  presented  on  or  before  the  Tliursday  of  the 
Race  week  of  each  year,  nor  until  all  arrearages  of  the  resigning  mem- 
ber, including  those  of  the  year,  be  discharged. 

RULE    XXIV. 

The  President,  Vice-President  and  Stewards,  or  a  majority  of  them, 
are  authorized  to  admit  members  of  this  Club  during  its  recess. 

RULE    XXV. 

All  extra  meetings  of  the  Club  shall  be  called  by  the  President,  or,  in 
Ids  absence,  by  the  Vice-President,  or,  in  the  absence  of  both,  by  a 
majority  of  the  Stewards. 

RULE  xxvr. 

No  gentleman,  hereafter,  not  a  member  of  the  Club,  shall  be  admitted 
into  the  Jockey  Club  Stand,  unless  he  presents  to  the  doorkeeper  a 
ticket,  bearing  his  name,  and  endorsed  by  a  member  of  the  Club. 

RULE    XXVII. 

It  shall  be  the  business  of  the  Secretary  to  keep  a  full,  foir,  and  im- 
partial account  of  all  the  proceedings  of  this  Club,  with  everything  of 
interest  relating  to  the  sports  of  the  week. 

RULE    XXVIII. 

All  members  of  the  Club,  and  their  families  in  the  direct  ascending 
and  descending  lines  (young  men  of  age  excepted),  are  entitled  to  en- 
trance to  all  sports  over  the  W^ashingtou  Course. 

RULE    XXIX. 

No  fundamental  Rule  of  this  Club  shall  be  altered  or  abolished,  un- 
less by  the  consent  of  a  majority  of  the  whole  Club. 


EULES  FOR  EACING. 


Horses  take  their  ages  from  May-day ;  that  is,  a  horse  foaled  any 
time  in  the  year  1828,  will  be  deemed  a  year  old  on  the  1st  of  May, 
1829. 

Four  inches  are  a  hand.     Fourteen  pounds  are  a  stone. 

Catehweights  are,  each  party  to  appoint  any  person  to  ride  without 
weighing. 

A  post  match  is  to  insert  the  age  of  the  horses  in  the  article,  and  to 
run  any  horse  of  that  age,  without  declaring  what  horse,  till  he  come 
to  the  post  to  start. 

Horses  not  entitled  to  start  without  producing  a  proper  certificate  of 
their  age,  if  required,  at  the  time  appointed  in  the  articles,  except  where 
aged  horses  are  included,  and  in  that  case  a  junior  horse  may  enter 
without  a  certificate  as  to  age,  provided  he  carry  the  same  weight  as 
the  aged. 

No  person  shall  start  more  than  one  horse  of  which  he  is  the  owner, 
either  wholly  or  in  part,  and  either  in  his  own  name,  or  in  that  of  any 
other  person,  for  any  race  for  which  heats  are  run. 

The  horse  that  has  his  head  to  the  ending  post  first,  wins  the  heat. 

When  heats  are  run,  the  preference  of  the  horses  to  be  determined  hy 
the  place  they  get  in  the  last  heat. 

When  a  plate  or  subscription  is  given  for  the  winner  of  the  best  of 
three  heats,  a  horse,  to  win  the  prize,  must  be  the  actual  winner  of  two 
heats,  even  though  no  horse  appear  against  him  for  both  or  either  of 
the  heats. 

When  three  horses  have  each  won  a  heat,  they  only  must  start  for  a 
fourth,  and  the  preference  amongst  them  will  be  determined  by  it,  there 
being  before  no  difference  amongst  them. 

In  running  of  heats,  if  it  cannot  be  decided  which  horse  is  first,  the 
heat  goes  for  nothing,  and  they  may  all  start  again,  except  it  be  between 
two  horses  that  had  each  won  a  heat. 

If  a  rid^r  fall  from  his  horse,  and  the  horse  be  rode  in  by  a  person 
who  is  sufficient  weight,  he  shall  take  his  place  the  same  as  if  his  rider 
had  not  fallen,  provided  he  goes  back  to  the  place  where  the  rider  fell. 


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Jockeys  must  ride  their  horses  to  the  usual  place  for  weighing  the 
riders,  and  he  that  dismounts  before,  or  wants  weight,  is  distanced  ;  vm- 
less  he  be  disabled  by  an  accident,  which  should  render  him  incapable 
of  riding  back,  in  which  case  lie  may  be  led  or  carried  to  the  scale. 

Hoi'ses  running  on  the  wrong  side  of  a  post,  and  not  turning  back, 
are  distanced. 

Horses  drawn  before  the  plate  is  won,  are  distanced. 

Horses  are  distanced  if  they  cross  or  jostle. 

All  complaints  of  foul  riding  must  be  made  before,  or  at  the  time  the 
Jockey  is  weighed. 

No  distance  in  a  fourth  heat. 

A  confirmed  bet  cannot  be  off  but  by  mutual  consent,  except  in  the 
cases  hereinafter  mentioned. 

Either  of  the  bettors  roay  demand  stakes  to  be  made,  and  on  refusal 
declare  the  debt  to  be  void. 

If  a  bettor  be  absent  on  the  day  of  running,  a  public  declaration  of  the 
bet  may  be  made  on  the  Course,  and  a  demand  whether  any  person  will 
make  stakes  for  the  absent  party,  and  if  no  person  consent  to  do  so,  the 
bet  may  be  declared  void. 

Bets  agreed  to  be  paid  or  received  elsewhere  than  at  the  place  of  run- 
ning, or  any  other  specified  place,  cannot  be  declared  off  on  the  Course. 

If  a  match  of  Sweepstakes  be  made  for  any  specified  day  in  any  week, 
and  the  parties  agree  to  change  the  day  to  any  other  in  the  same  week,  all 
bets  must  stand;  but  if  the  parties  agree  to  run  the  race  inadifierent 
week,  all  bets  made  before  the  alteration  shall  be  void. 

The  person  who  lays  the  odds  has  a  right  to  choose  a  horse  or  the  field  ; 
when  a  person  has  chosen  a  horse,  the  field  is  what  starts  against  him  ;  but 
there  is  no  field  without  one  horse  starts  against  him. 

If  odds  are  laid  without  mentioning  the  horse  before  the  race  is 
over,  the  bet  must  be  determined  by  the  state  of  the  odds  at  the 
time  of  making  it. 

Bets  made  in  running  are  not  determined  till  the  plate  is  won,  if 
that  heat  be  not  mentioned  at  the  time  of  running. 

A  bet  made  after  the  heat  is  over,  if  the  horse  betted  on  does  not 
start,  is  void. 

Bets  determined,  though  the  horse  does  not  start,  when  the  words 
"  play  or  pay,"  are  made  use  of  in  betting.  Bets  made  on  horses  win- 
ning any  number  of  races  within  the  year  shall  be  understood,  however 
the  expression   may  be  varied,  as  meaning  the  year  of  our  Lord. 

Matches  and  bets  are  void  on  the  decease  of  either  party,  before 
the  match  or  bet  is  determined. 


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A  horse  walking  over,  or  receiving  forfeit,  shall  be  deemed  a  winner. 

An  untried  stallion  or  mare,  is  one  whose  produce  has  never  run  in 
puhlic. 

A  maiden  horse  or  mare  is  one  that  has  never  started. 

Feather  Weight. — A  horse  carries  feather  weight  when  the  terms  of 
the  race  allow  the  owner  to  place  what  rider  he  pleases  on  his  back; 
he  consequently  procures  the  lightest  eligible  Jockey  possible,  who  weighs 
neither  before  nor  after  the  race. 


PART   IX. 


"  In  after  years,  when  thou,  perchance, 
As  thoughts  of  Auld  Lang  Syne  arise, 

'Midst  other  scenes,  shall  cast  a  glance 
Along  these  pages;  should  thine  eyes 

Eest  on  this  tribute,  think  of  me^- 

Think  kindly,  as  I  do  of  thee." 


It  is  now  time  to  dismiss  our  subject,  whicli  might  be  extended  to  an 
unlimited  lengtb.  As  Sbakspeare  says,  in  bis  Henry  the  Fifth:  "The 
man  hath  no  wit  that  cannot,  from  the  rising  of  the  lark  to  the  lodging 
of  the  lamb,  vary  deserved  praise  on  my  palfrey.  It  is  a  theme  as 
fluent  as  the  sea ;  turn  the  sands  into  eloquent  tongues,  and  my  horse 
is  argument  for  them  all.  'Tis  a  subject  for  a  sovereign  to  reason  on, 
and  for  a  sovereign's  sovereign  to  ride  on ;  and  for  the  world  (familiar 
to  us  and  unknown)  to  lay  apart  their  particular  functions  and  wonder  at 
him." 

Enough  has  been  said  in  the  foregoing  pages  to  show  the  antiquity  of 
Racing ;  the  prevailing  taste  of  the  age  for  it ;  the  increase  of  blood 
stock ;  the  multiplying  of  places  for  sports  of  the  Turf  in  the  different 
sections  of  the  country ;  and  though  last,  not  least,  the  peculiar  attrac- 
tiveness of  our  own  Race  Course  in  Charleston. 

We  cannot  conclude,  then,  (in  addition  to  what  has  already  been 
said,)  without  one  word  more  in  commendation  of  it.  There  is  no 
doubt  that  ours  is  a  place  of  sport  somewhat  different  from  the  generality 
of  Race  Grounds.  It  has  many  advantages  to  recommend  it.  It  was 
instituted,  not  solely  for  the  enjoyment  of  the  outward  effect  of  the 
beautiful  spectacle  which  a  well  contested  race  presents;  nor  even, 
altogether,  to  afford  an  arena  on  which,  in  honorable  and  gentlemanly 
rivalry,  the  speed,  and  powei',  and  value  of  our  horses  may  be  tested ; 
but  to  have,  in  an  especial  manner,  an  important  bearing  upon  our  social 
relations — to  link  town  and  country  together,  and  our  State  with  her 
sister  States,  binding  them  to  each  other  by  mutual  interests,  and  the 
promotion  of  a  common  object — to  bring  together  those  from  all  parts 
of  our  own  State,  and  from  racing  regions  beyond  our  own  borders,  who 
are,  by  unavoidable  circumstances,  separated  throughout  the  rest  of  the 
year,  that  they  may,  at  least  once  in  twelve  months,  "  smoke  the  calu- 
met" of  kind  feeling  and  cheeiful  intercourse,  to  the  continuance  of  old 
and  the  formation  of  new  friendships. 

And  "  this  consummation  so  devoutly  to  be  wished,"  is  fully  realized. 
Race  week  in  Charleston  is  truly  a  season  of  hospitality,  merriment  and 
open-heartedness,  bringing  round  an  epoch  of  social  delight.  Many, 
very  many  of  the  sons  of  Alledius — kindred  spirits,  an  united  brother- 
hood of  congenial  souls — that  have  been  dispersed  and  scattered  far  and 


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wide  throughout  the  rest  of  the  year  in  the  restless  struggles  of  life,  are 
then  re-united,  meeting  once  again  in  a  happy  state  of  companionship 
and  mutual  good  ■will,  buoyed  up  so  high  on  the  full  tide  of  enjoyment; 
so  entertained  from  day  to  day  with  novelty  and  excitement,  that,  like 
Rasselas,  they  seem  to  regret  even  the  necessity  of  sleep,  and  long  for 
the  morning,  to  renew  their  pleasure. 

And,  although  many  of  the  hearts  that  have  beat  in  unison  gaily  with 
those  of  the  merry  and  joyous  group,  accustomed  to  meet  year  after 
year,  fail  to  keep  time,  "to  make  as  healthful  music"  as  of  yore,  never- 
theless, the  old  places  of  resort — the  same  pleasant  routine — the  meet- 
ings of  the  Club  at  night — the  drive  out  to  the  Course  daily — the  drive 
back  again  to  the  city — the  dinner,  the  ball,  the  merry  voices  and  smil- 
ing faces — the  jest,  the  laugh,  the  most  minute  and  trivial  circumstance 
connected  with  every  happy  meeting  that  has  been — scenes  and  images 
rising  up 

"  In  the  dark  backward,  and  abysm  of  Time," 

from  the  magic  cauldron  of  warmed  imaginations,  and  passing  in  review 
like  wonder  after  wonder  in  Prospero's  fairy  isle, 

"  A  most  majestic  vision,  and 
Harmonious  charmingly." 

Old  associations  and  dormant  sympathies  awakened,  crowd  upon  the 
mind  at  each  recurrence  of  the  season,  and  succeed  in  gladdening  the 
survivors — nay,  even  in  winning  them  back,  by  listening  to,  or  telling, 
old  stories  of  earlier  and  bygone  days — to  live  over,  with  unalloyed 
pleasure,  for  awhile,  the  2^<^st  in  the  jyresent,  making  them  frequently 
"  boys  again !" 

It  is,  alas !  too  true,  that  Time — that  indefatigable  old  fellow — who 
will  neither  stand  still  himself  nor  suifer  others  to  do  so,  Avill  bring 
about  some  sad  changes  ;  yet,  the  probability  is,  that  as  Charleston  Race 
week  has  always  been,  so  it  will  ever  continue  to  be  an  agreeable  time 
— a  carnival,  a  bright  landmark  of  the  year — a  loadstone  that  will  draw 
together  friends  and  acquaintances,  and  kindred  spirits,  from  a  distance — 
youth  gladdened  and  maturer  age  rejuvenated,  by  its  recurrence — all  its 
days  fair  and  cloudless  (no  matter  whether  it  rains  heavily  or  not), 
cheered  by  the  light  and  warmth  of  the  heart's  sunshine — the  sunshine 
that  is  within  ! 

Who  that  ever  enjoyed,  in  other  days,  the  hospitality  of  the  South 
Carolina  Jockey  Club,  lias  forgotten  the  courteous  manners  and  uniform 
urbanity  of  the  former  Presidents — the  much  loved,  valued  and  honored 


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McPherson  and  Pinckney  ?     Wlio  but  has  been  fascinated  in  later  years 
by  the  dignified  pleasantry  of  the  present  presiding  officer? 

"  A  merrier  man 
Within  the  limits  of  becoming:  mirth 
I  never  spent  an  hour's  talk  withal. 
His  eye  l)e£fets  occasion  for  his  wit; 
For  every  object  that  the  one  doth  catcli, 
The  other  turns  to  a  mirth  moving  jest, 
So  sweet  and  voluble  is  his  discourse." 

Who  has  not  been  delightfully  impressed  by  the  bland  demeanor  and 
refined  address  of  Col.  Ashe,  denoting  the  tru-i  breeding  of  a  gentleman  ? 

"  A  braver  gentleman, 
One  more  noble,  generous,  is  not  alive 
To  grace  the  present  age  " 

Who  in  our  country  that  is  a  friend  of  the  sport  that  Disraeli  styles 
to  be  in  England  "  the  noble  pastime  of  the  aristocracy,"  but  can  revert 
with,  pride  and  pleasure  to  the  brilliant  array  of  noble  names  long  iden- 
tified with  the  Turf  in  South  Carolina — Alston,  the  two  McPhersons, 
Hampton  (sire  and  son),  AVashington,  Fenwicke,  Cantey,  Sumter,  War- 
ren, the  Smiths,  the  T;iy!ors,  the  Richardsons,  Singleton  and  Sinkler? 

Shakspeare  shows  in  a  pageant  "  the  ivorthies  of  the  world''''  to  have 
been  nine  in  number.  If  the  immortal  bard  had  been  in  these  days 
telHng  of  men  and  manners,  and  the  good  that  is  to  live  after  them,  he 
■would  assuredly  have  claimed  for  nine  of  the  above  named  gentlemen, 
as  we  do  now,  the  distinction  to  which  they  are  so  well  entitled,  of 
having  been  the  nine  great  worthies  of  the  South  Carolina  Turf ! 

Who,  as  often  as  the  merry  old  times  that  are  gone,  come  again  'wil- 
dering  o'er  the  brain,  but  thinks  of  amusements  he  has  shared  with  the 

manly,  clever  T.  H ,  regular  in  his  attendance  at  every  meeting,  and 

invariably  in  good  spirits,  who 

"  Measur'd  not  his  carriage  by  any  man's  eye — 
His  speech  by  no  man's  ear;  resolute 
And  confident  in  saying  and  doing. 
With  the  grace  of  a  right  gentleman  ?" 

Who  but  often  recalls  S of  B ,  in  his  rich  humor — a  right  merry 

man — and  dear  old  A M ,  inimitable  in  his  waggery  and  jokes, 

a  prominent  feature  for  a  long  time  in  the  community,  by  his  perpetual 
gaiety  and  unfailing  power  of  creating  mirth — laughing,  talking,  telling 
comical  stories,  mimicking  everybody  (good  naturedly,  of  course)  ?  It 
might  have  been  said  of  our  friend  as  Shakspeare  said  of  one  of  his 
humorous  characters : 


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,.  .   ^  "  This  fellow  pecks  up  wit  as  pigreons  peas, 

,'  %  And  uttei's  it  again  when  Jove  doth  please ; 

^  He  is  wit's  pedler,  and  retails  his  wares 

At  wakes  and  wassails,  meetings,  markets,  fairs." 

"  Alas  !  poor  Abe  !  I  knew  him  well ;  a  fellow  of  infinite  jest !  Where 
be  your  gibes  now  ?  your  gambols  ?  your  songs  ?  your  flashes  of  merri- 
ment, that  were  wont  to  set  the  table  in  a  roar  ?" 

Who  but  associates  many  pleasant  hours  with  M ,  full  of  music 

and   of  fun,  relishing  a  joke  and   rejoicing  in  a  pun  ?  and  G ,  for 

many  years  a  faithful  steward  of  the  Club,  who,  if  he  were  to  carry  out, 
in  his  daily  walks,  all  the  benevolent  impulses  of  his  generous  nature — 
or,  in  other  words,  was  permitted,  like  a  thorough  bred,  as  he  is,  from 
the  Old  Dominion,  with  good  action  to  go  his  own  gait^  would,  as  Kit 
Cosey  says,  make  all   men  "  co??i/or/a6^e,"  and  keep   them,  so?"     W^ho 

but  is  "  kindly  affectioned  "  towards  W.  C.  H ?    Whether  viewed  on 

the  Course,  engaged  in  his  official  duties  as  starter  of  the  horses,  or 
furthering  the  business  of  the  Club  by  a  punctual  attendance  at  all  regu- 
lar meetings,  there  is  a  refined  propriety  about  him  that  marks  him 
destined  to  fill,  at  some  future  day,  the  highest  post  of  honor  in  the 
Club. 

And  who  that  notices  all  the  shades  and  gradations  into  which  the 
sporting  spirit  of  the  members  of  the  Club  has  resolved  itself  from  time 
to  time,  but  duly  acknowledges  the  extent  of  the  Turf  lore,  and  the 

witchery  of  the  fine  conversational  talent  of  J A ?     See  him 

on  the  Race  Course,  or  at  the  social  board,  where  the  good  things  of 
this  life  are  discussed,  and  it  does  the  heart  good  to  witness  his  hon~ 
honwiie,  and  the  spirit  with  which  he  partakes  of  the  sport.  Who  can 
make  a  better  after-dinner  speech  ?  and  who  could,  when  he  was  at  an  age 
to  witcdi  the  world  with  feats  of  horsemanship,  tool  his  bits  of  blood 
with  greater  proficiency,  baring  accidents,  which  will  sometimes  happen 
even  to  the  most  skilful  ?  With  the  best  sporting  blood  in  his  veins, 
from  a  grandsire  of  the  good  old  stock,  he  is  so  "  well  up  "  in  the  pedi- 
gree of  every  high  mettled  racer — so  '■'■  well  posted''''  in  all  Tuvf  matters 
— no  one  is  more  frequently  appealed  to,  to  decide  differences  of  opinion 
as  to  past  events  on  the  Turf,  the  pedigrees,  the  ages  or  performances  of 
horses ;  and  every  one  fond  of  racing,  who  is  fortunate  enough  to  have 
a  little  '■'■horse  talk''''  with  him,  immediately  feels  it  is  good  to  be  in  his 
company,  and  that  he  is  a  man  completely  to  his  mind.     - 

Who  that  has  ever  taken  his  seat  with   the   amiable  C ,  at  the 

same  festive  board,  but  immediately  thinks  he  sees  the  embodied  spirit 
of  genuine  bonhommie  in  his  goodly  person  and  smiling  looks?    his 


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tuneful  voice  reminding  his  hearers  of  the  fascination  of  that  magic 
Jiute  we  read  of  in  an  Arabian  tale : 

"  As  sweet  and  musiral 
As  bright  Apollo's  lute  strung  with  his  hair;" 

or,  as  Paganini's  fiddle,  of  which  it  was  said  by  one  who,  having  been 
ravished  by  its  performance,  and  was,  subsequently  permitted  to  handle 
the  instrument  of  the  great  Maestro,  that,  "  though  silent,  it  was  still 
eloquent  of  music  and  delight;"  a  pretty  idea,  indeed,  neatly  expressed, 
and  very  suggestive,  now  that  the  good  old  poet  Rogers  is  no  more,  of 
"  The  Pleasures  of  Memory.'''' 

Who  that  has  once  seen  him,  is   likely  to  forget  the   eccentric  but 

highly  esteemed  by  all  who  know  him, ?    A  rough  exterior  may 

be  his,  but  it  covers  a  very  worthy  soul,  like  a  rusty  chest  that  conceals 
some  rich  treasure  within.  Who  that  has  once  caught  a  glimpse  of 
him  in  the  street,  but  immediately  concludes,  that  some  one  happening 
to  see  him  flourishing  in  the  country, 

"  Recubans  sub  tegmine  fagi," 

must  have  contrived  just  to  take  hitn  up  by  the  roots,  like  a  vigorous 
old  oak,  with  all  its  branches  about  it,  untrimmed,  and  transplanted  him 
in  the  city — rus  in  urbe — full  of  mettle,  and 

"  As  merry  as  good  Master  Silence  ?" 

as  Shakspeare  describes  that  grotesque  character  sometimes  to  be 

"  In  the  sweet  of  the  night." 

Who  is  there  that  does  not  appreciate  the  social  qualities  of  P 

P ,  whose  wit,  not  of  the  ambitious  kind,  consists  in  easy  'scapes  and 

sallies,  as  Johnson  says,  the  most  pleasing  of  all  qualities  for  a  convivial 
party  ;  for  it  never  fails  to  make  sport,  and  excites  no  envy'^     And  who 

does  not  think  with  much  respect  of  W ?     Like  many  others,  with 

whom  we  climbed  the  hill  together,  he,  alas !  is  also  in  his  grave 
now;  but  the  earth  cannot  shut  out  the  recollection  of  the  many  excel- 
lent qualifications  that  constituted  him  a  welcome  companion  with 
many.  What  more  scientific  disciple  of  Bob  Short,  or  Mathews,  was 
there  in  genteel  society?  Who  could  sip  a  glass  of ''  that  which  maketh 
the  heart  glad,"  and  more  immediately  display  a  second  miracle — not 
water  changed  into  wine,  but  mne  into  the  milk  of  human  kindness? 


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Who  could  pronounce  upon  its  quality  with  more  nicety  than  W -,  his 

taste  as  excellent  in  the  choice  of  wines  as  his  judgment  with  regard  to 
the  great  staples  of  the  country? 

Not  to  omit  in  this  limited  enumeration  another  of  our  boon  com- 
panions, who  in  his  day  certainly  "has  done  the  Club  some  service,  and 
they  know  it,"  who  does  not  remember  kindly  the  Old  Governor^  as  he 
was  called  for  many  years?  "Who  that  knew  him  intimately  did  not 
readily  respond  to  the  generous  sentiment : 

"  With  all  thy  faults,  I  love  thee  still !" 

In  a  difBculty,  what  safer  friend  to  apply  to,  either  in  coimsel  or  on  the 
5eld  ?  In  respect  to  the  laws  of  honor,  he  was  a  peripatetic  professor, 
and  has  bequeathed  a  valuable  legacy  to  the  young  and  inexperienced, 
by  leaving  behind  him  a  "Code  of  Honor"  for  the  world. 

We  can  hardly  avoid  recalling  others,  but  I  will  not  further  seek  their 
merits  to  disclose.  We  must  be  satisfied  "  to  picture  them  in  memory's 
mellowing  glass,"  identified  with  some  parti(.'ular  revelry  during  race 
week,  when  every  one  seemed  content  to  enjoy  for  the  day,  and  to 
take  no  thought  for  the  morrow — when  merriment  ended  not  with  part- 
ing light,  but  continued  through  the  wakeful  night — the  huge  "  Wassail 
Boivl"  oft  replenished,  smoking  upon  the  table — a  royal  mixture, 
worthy  the  royal — the  lemons  squeezed  and  the  sugar  stirred,  and  the 
rightful  quantity  of  the  "sme  qua  non''^  determined  by  one  of  no  less  a 
degree  than  a  worthy  descendant  of  the  illustrious  house  of  the  Stuarts, 
who,  as  soon  as  the  compound  was  adjudged  complete,  satisfactory  to 
his  taste,  always  threw  his  arms  affectionately  about  the  capacious  bowl, 
in  a  loving  embrace,  and  brought  it  into  the  room,  looking  as  if  (the 
concoction  being  his  ow^n  good  oflspi'ing)  he  had  a  natural  right,  with 
honest  pride,  not  only  to  think  much  of  it  himself,  but  to  expect  others 
to  do  so  likewise.  Every  shake  he  gave  it  seemed  given  to  it  on  pur- 
pose only  to  make  it  waft  its  odors  more  and  more,  like  incense  to  the 
senses,  and  then  the  boon  companions  assembled  on  the  occasion,  "  like 
brethren  delighting  to  dwell  together  in  unity,"  how  they  would,  with 
one  accord,  honor  the  fragrant  aroma  as  it  passed  in  aromatic  vapor 
from  nose  to  nose,  making  the  very  air  ambrosial.  Some  would  sip, 
and  sip  again,  and  so#ne  would  smoke — one  would  sing  and  another 
give  a  toast,  and  instantly  a  fresh  joke  would  be  started,  the  table  ring- 
ino"  and  roaring,  not  with  a  kind  of  heartless  merriment,  as  if  it  was  of 
a  substance  so  thin  as  to  have  been  previously  squeezed   and  strained, 


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but  a  good  heartfelt  joy — loud  like  tluinder,  substantial,  savoring  of 
flesh  and  blood. 

"  A  little  nonsense  now  and  then 
Is  relished  by  the  best  of  men." 

We  will  not  go  on — ah,  no  !  for  who  can  des(;ribe  a  laugh  ?  "Who 
can,"  as  Charles  Lamb  says,  "carry  away  a  rich  thought  with  all  its 
bloom  ?  Where  is  the  freshness  of  the  jest  that  hangs  iipon  accident 
or  circumstance  ?     It  cannot  be  done." 

It  is  proverbial  that  all  who  come  to  Charleston  during  race  week,  do 
not  find  their  way  thei'e  merely  to  see  the  races.  Many  choose  that 
time  for  a  visit  to  the  city,  for  the  purpose  of  social  enjoyment — to  see 
their  acquaintances,  nay,  even  with  an  eye  to  business,  and  the  most 
legitimate  objects  in  view — to  look  on  the  world — on  many  of  its  follies, 
many  of  its  vices,  it  may  be — but  to  look  only  that  they  may  the  better 
shun  them.  Much  money  is  foolishly  spent  (it  is  too  true),  but  whatever 
is  spent  in  this  way  circulates  freely  ;  and  although  it  may  sometimes, 
in  the  first  instance,  get  into  the  pockets  of  the  undeserving — into  the 
purses  of  those  (we  will  frankly  admit  this,  if  the  reader  pleases)  who 
act  up  to  the  advice  given  in  the  play  of  "The  Man  of  the  World," 
"get  money,  honestly  if  you  can,  but  get  money ;"  or,  the  hint  of  lago, 
thrown  out  to  Roderigo,  "  Put  money  in  thy  purse — make  all  the  money 
thou  canst;"  by  which  is  meant,  honestly  if  thou  canst — at  all  events, 
put  moneij  in  thy  purse  ;  yet  these  are  an  improvident  class,  and  it  soon 
passes  from  them,  to  those  who  know  how  to  make  a  good  use  of  it, 
E\en  then,  on  this  weak  point,  the  races  have  something  to  recommend 
them. 

In  addition  to  what  has  been  said,  as  a  still  further  and  rightful  claim 
upon  the  public  respect,  it  should  be  borne  in  mind  that  no  Carolina 
Turfman  prepares  his  horses,  and  brings  them  to  the  Starting  Post,  as  a 
business,  but  only  as  a  recreation.  Uorses  are  bred  and  trained  in  South 
Carolina  only  by  those  who  keep  thorough  bred  stock  on  their  planta- 
tions, as  a  pastime,  and  for  the  promotion  of  a  good  breed  of  honses; 
hence,  all  who  assemble  to  witness  our  races,  "dread  not  here  deceit, 
nor  fear  to  suffer  wrong,"  but  indulge  their  judgment,  and  hack  that 
judgment  freely  on  each  event,  confident  that  every  horse  entered  and 
started  will  try  to  win,  and  that  the  best  horse  will  win.  The  conse- 
quence of  this  is,  that  on  the  Charleston  Race  Ground  there  is  never 
any  ill-concealed  anxiety  on  the  part  of  our  people  as  to  the  issue  of 
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any  pending  event — no  vulgar  clamor — no  exhibition  of  the  worst  pas- 
sions of  our  nature — no  blackleg  combinations. 

"  Sunt  haec  etiam  sua  prastnia  laudi." 

Our  cheerful  peasantry,  too,  in  their  holiday  clothes,  look  on,  and  by 
their  countenances  attest  the  enjoyment  they  are  permitted  to  participate 
in.  In  a  word,  on  all  sides  around,  there  are  the  evidences  that  "  those 
in  authority  "  omit  no  effort  to  put  "  The  South  Carolina  Jockey  Cluh^'' 
upon  the  most  unexce])tionable  footing — to  make  it,  if  possible,  the  very 
first  among  similar  associations  in  our  country,  thus  maintaining  for  the 
Charleston  Races  their  high  character  abroad  and  at  home,  adding  more 
and  more,  year  after  year,  to  their  well  merited  popularity. 

It  is  incumbent  upon  the  men  of  the  present,  generation  to  follow 
faithfully  in  the  footsteps  of  their  fathers,  so  as  to  hand  down  unimpaired 
to  their  sons,  and  their  sons'  sons,  who  are  hereafter  to  fill  their  places, 
when  they  are  no  longer  on  the  Turf,  but  under  it,  the  high  character 
and  enjoyments  of  the  good  old  Club — a  rich  legacy  that  has  descended 
to  them  in  trust  from  an  honorable  ancestry. 

Not  much  moi'e  can  be  expected  from  those  who  have  had  their  day — 
"  grown  aged,  used  up,"  and  now  turned  out  to  grass ;  but  on  the  young 
devolves  the  duty 

"  To  attest 
That  those  whom  tbey  call  Fathers  did  beget  them, 

To  show 
The  mettle  of  their  pasture,  and  that  they 
Are  worth  their  breeding." 

The  writer  of  this  has  no  fears  for  the  result.  He  has  always  thought 
and  seen,  through  a  now  somewhat  long  and   not  uneventful  life,  that 

BLOOD    W^ILL    TELL  !  ! 

As  you,  my  younger  associates  of  the  Club,  sons  of  the  "  Rivals 
of  my  Watch  "*  in  other  days,  (now  gone  for  ever,)  have  been  highly 
bred,  early  taken  in  hand,  properly  bitted,  made  thoroughly  bridle  wise, 


*  "  The  Rivals  of  my  Watch." — Hamlet,  Act  1,  Scene  1. 

Shakspeare  seems  always  ready  to  supply  words  to  express  our  quaintest  thoughts. 
This  phrase  (a  little  poetic  liberty  being  taken  with  the  meaning  originally  intended) 
nts  in  peculiarly  well  in  this  place.  Shakspeare,  throughout  his  plays,  uses  Rivals 
ibr  associates,  partners  and  competitors ;  and  the  indoctrinated  into  the  modem 
system  of  racing  need  not  be  told,  that  a  Watch  is  a  piece  of  property  indispensable 
to  any  one  having  anything  to  do  with  the  economy  of  the  Turf,  to  enable  him  pro- 
perly to  time,  and  report  the  performances  of  the  horses — hence,  then,  the  apposite- 
ness  of  the  quotation:  "The  Rivals  of  my  Watch." 


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then  well  trained^  and  now  started  fairly,  ivell  up,  and  in  (/ood  positions, 
with  pilenty  of  foot  and  plenty  of  bottom,  to  make  play,  "  take  the  lead, 
and  keep  it^''  whenever  called  upon  ;  it  may  reasonably  be  expected  of 
you,  that  no  matter  how  hard  soever  may  be  the  Course,  and  severity  of 
the  pace  you  have  to  run,  you  will  never  bolt,  give  back,  nor  let  down  ; 
but,  carrying  the  heaviest  "  weight  for  age,"  honestly,  will  not  only 
make  a  good  race,  but  find  yourselves  at  the  Coming  in  Post,  well 
PLACED  B«  THE  ^UDGE,  closiug  at  last  a  long,  honorable  and  triumphant 
campaign  with  A  Dead  Heat  ! 


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